As a deity name
Name 386 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
As a Hindi name
अम्बालिका · ambālikā · s.f.
An epithet of Pārvati — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 80
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
mother
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Dictionary citations
ambālikā f. (voc. ambālike), mother, VS.
of a plant, N. of a daughter of a king of Kāśi (wife of Vicitravīrya, and mother of Pāṇḍu), MBh.
ambālikā f. (-kā) 1 A mother. 2 The mother of PĀṆḌU.
Alternative readings
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