ambara 1 · ambara 2
sky
Ambara 1 (neuter) [Vedic ambara circumference, horizon] the sky, Dāṭh I 38; IV 51; V 32. — Note: At Ja V 390 we have to read muraja-ālambara, and not mura-jāla-ambara. Ambara 2 (masculine-neuter) [etymology = ambara 1 (?) or more likely a distortion of kambala; for the latter speaks the combination rattambara = ratta-kambala. — The word would thus be due to an erroneous syllable division rattak-ambala (= ambara) instead of ratta-kambala] some sort of cloth and an (upper) garment made of it (cf. kambala) Vv 53 7 (ratt° = uttariya Vv-a 236).
ambara , ( 1 ) m. , garment (recorded only as nt. in Skt. and Pali ): LV 92.16 ( vs ) ambarān, acc. pl. ; ( 2 ) m. , n. of a Buddha: Mv i.124.4 . See also dravyāmbara .
【中】 1. 布料。2. 天空。
(nt, nt) cloth
(nt, nt) sky sky