[Advaita-l] Rudra and ambica

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Kaushik
I am glad to know you looked up Sayana bhAShya. That's really nice.

If you can cut paste or type or send a screenshot of that phrase parsing
ambikA as autumn, it may be a good idea.

There is also another meaning.
The word ambikA is one of the three aspects (sisters?) viz., ambA, ambikA,
ambAlikA.

It is also the name of a herb and the words ambA, ambikA, ambAlikA are
three "sister" herbs (tri-ambaka-s) often used together for Vedic Homam to
Rudra for conferring good health or freedom from disease, mentioned in
yajurveda. One of the three sister herbs is called ambikA.

अम्बे अम्बिकेअम्बालिके न मा नयति कश्चन |
ससस्त्यश्वकः सुभद्रिकां कम्पिल्वसिनिं || यजुवेद २३||१८



Yajurveda reference
यजुर्वेद स्पष्ट करता है की ये तीन औषधिया है

अम्बे अम्बिकेअम्बालिके न मा नयति कश्चन |
ससस्त्यश्वकः सुभद्रिकां कम्पिल्वसिनिं || यजुवेद २३||१८

Panini reference
उक्त तीनो एक हि स्थान पर कह दिये गये है |
प्रमाण पाणिनि का त्रियम्बकम पद सूत्र देखे अष्टाध्याई ५|१|५८
ये औषधीय काम्पील मे होती है|
यानि ये जिस जगह होति है उसे काम्पील कहते है | | काम्पील एक औषधि है जिसके
साथ अम्बिका अदि औषधिया होती है |
अब देखिये की वैद्धक में उक्त औषधियों की चर्चा है के नहीं |

Bhaava prakaasha nighanTu ayurvedic textual reference -
देखिये प्रमाण भाव प्रकाश में लिखा है
माचिका प्रस्थिकम्ब्ष्ठ तथाम्बाआम्बलिकाम्बिका | भाव ओ हरित्क्यदिवर्ग १७०

अतः उक्त प्रमाणो से सिद्ध हो गया की तीन अम्ब न तो शिव के नेत्र है ना ही
महाभारत कालीन कन्याये और रानिया है - ये तीन अम्ब औषधिया है |

यह लेख वैदिक संपत्ति पण्डित रघुनन्दन शर्मा “साहित्यभूषण” द्वारा लिखित
पुस्तक वैदिक संपत्ति(प्रष्ट संख्या ७०-७१) से लिया गया है |


While the above only shows two other possibilities that the word ambikA is
not suster of shiva. Rather ambikA is one of the well-known sisters
(mentioned in yajur veda - no connexion with Mahabharata, please note), or
even one of three vedic homa herbs.


Om
Raghav



On Sat, 10 Oct, 2020, 6:43 PM Kaushik Chevendra, <chevendrakaushik at gmail.com>
wrote:

The sayana bhasya interprets ambica as autmn season



On Fri, 9 Oct, 2020, 6:50 PM Divya Meedin via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> Alright, wish you the best.
>
> Regards,
> Divya
>
> On Fri, 9 Oct, 2020, 12:13 Kaushik Chevendra, <chevendrakaushik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for sharing. I have already seen this, the answers weren't
> > satisfactory to me. So I want to know what the knowledgeable members of
> > group think.
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Oct 2020, 11:59 Divya Meedin, <divyameedin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Namaste,
> >>
> >> Here is a discussion -
> >>
> https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/22204/why-is-devi-ambika-called-lord-shivas-sister-in-yajurveda&ved=2ahUKEwiG8tex8KbsAhVDyTgGHWoIBYUQFjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3RmKCWy4kfSOdi7l20qf1t&cshid=1602224806735
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Divya
> >>
> >> On Fri, 9 Oct, 2020, 11:40 Kaushik Chevendra via Advaita-l, <
> >> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> एष ते रुद्र भाग: सह *स्वस्त्राम्बिकया* तं जुषस्व स्वाहैष ते रुद्र भाग S
> >>> आखुस्ते पशु:।।57।।
> >>>
> >>> Rudra, this is thine allotted portion. With *Ambika thy sister* kindly
> >>> take
> >>> it. This, Rudra, is thy share, the rat thy vAhanam. (Shukla Yajurveda
> >>> 3.57)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Why is ambika devi being called rudras sister?
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