Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.2501

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1. **Ambaṭṭha** (usually called **Ambaṭṭha-mānava**). A brahmin youth of the Ambaṭṭha clan who lived with his teacher, **Pokkharasādi**, at **Ukkaṭṭhā**. He was learned in the three Vedas and the correlated branches of knowledge, including the Lokāyata, as recorded in the *Ambaṭṭha Sutta*.¹ Once, at the request of his teacher, he visited the Buddha in the **Icchānaṅkala** wood and seems to have opened his conversation by reviling the Sākyans and calling them menials. It appears that Ambaṭṭha had once gone on some business of Pokkharasādi's to Kapilavatthu, to the Mote Hall of the Sākyans, and had been insulted there.²