AmbagÄma
1. AmbagÄma.- A village in Sri Lanka near Pulatthipura identified with the modern Ambagamuva. A battle was fought there between the forces of GajabÄhu and ParakkamabÄhu I. (Cv.lxx.321) ParakkamabÄhu II. built a bridge, thirty-four cubits in length, over the KhajjotanadÄ« at AmbagÄma. Ibid., lxxxvi.23.
2. AmbagÄma.- One of the villages near VesÄli visited by the Buddha on his last tour (D.ii.123). It was between Bhaṇá¸agÄma and Bhoganagara, on the road from VesÄli to KusinÄra. This was evidently the road which led from VesÄli northwards to the Malla Country, for other villages in the vicinity of AmbagÄma were HatthigÄma and JambugÄma.
It is noteworthy that Anupiya, although in the Malla country, is not mentioned in the list of these villages. Thomas (Op. cit., 148, n.1) thinks that this is because the route to KusinÄra passed to the east of Anupiya.
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