SyAma
Śyāma , ( 1 ) also Śyāmaka , sometimes written with S for Ś, and m.c. a for ā; honorific -ś(i)rī sometimes added to the name (= Pali Sāma), n. of a brahman lad, former incarnation of Śākyamuni (story in full Mv ii.209—219 in prose, then in verse to 231.6 ): Śyāma Mv ii.213.1, 3, 11, 15 ; 220.11 ; 226.4 (read at end with mss. Śyāmasya; before it ca or va), 12; 228.4 (Syāma); 231.1 ; Karmav 55.17 ; Syamu ( n. sg. ) LV 166.3 ( vs , a m.c. ); Śyāmaśiri Mv ii.214.8, 16 ; 217.5, 6, 7 ; Śyāmaka Mv ii.210.12, 13 ; RP 22.1 ; Śyāmaka-śiri, often with v.l. °ka-ṛṣi, Mv ii.215.6, 7, 13, 15, 18 ; 216.2, 17, 20 ; 217.10 ; 218.1 etc. ; ( 2 ) Syamu ( acc. sg. , a m.c. ) ṛṣi LV 166.19 ( vs ), n. of an ascetic who demanded of the Bodhisattva in a former birth that he count the leaves on a tree, which he did.