aMbikA 1 A mother, good woman, also used like aMbA as a term of respect or endearment; attike aMbike SfRu mama vijYaptiM Mk. 1. 2 N. of a plant ( aMbA 2); of another plant kawukI . 3 N. of Pārvatī, wife of Śiva; ASIrBireDayAmAsuH puraH pAkABiraMbikAM Ku. 6. 90. 4 N. of the middle daughter of Kāśīrāja and the eldest wife of Vicitra-Vīrya. Like her youngest sister she had no progeny, and Vyāsa begot on her a son named DftarAzwra . Comp. — patiH , — BartA N. of Śiva. — putraH, -sutaH N. of DftarAzwra .