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Amarā , ( 1 ) n. of a smithʼs daughter (= later Yaśodharā), who married Mahauṣadha; heroine of a Jātaka which = the Pali Sūci-j. , No. 387 : Mv ii.83.19 ff. ; colophon 89.11 Amarāye karmāradhītāye jātakam. In the Sūci-j. the characters are unnamed; but ( Pali ) Mahosadha [Page063-a] is the hero of the Mahāummagga-j. , No. 546 , and Amarā is his wife. This has misled both CPD and DPPN into identifying this Pali Jātaka with the story of Mv . Actually the stories are quite different, and Mv agrees with the Sūci-j. , which, to be sure, acc. to the Story of the Present, belongs to the same occasion as the Mahāummagga; hence doubtless the transfer of the names of the hero and heroine from one to the other. Which was the original? ( 2 ) n. of a river: Māy 253.6 ; in a list between Viśvāmitrā and Tāmarā; not in Kirfel ; perhaps read Amalā? (but this also is not recorded as a river-name).