Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s16.253

v1.c3.s16.253

Jāmbila, ‘hollow of the knee,’¹ occurs once in the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā.² The word also occurs in the form of Jāmbila in the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā³ and the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā.⁴ Mahīdhara, in his commentary on the latter text, interprets the word as ‘knee-pan,’ which he says is so named because of its resemblance to the citron, jāmbīra.