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*Āmbi*, *pilā* or *eḍā*, otherwise known as *iraikūdai* in Tamil, was a basket specially employed for bailing out water from deep channels or streams to nearby fields (*Maduraikāñcī*, line 91; *Śilappadikāram*, X. 107-119). It was made or knotted out of palm-leaf and had a thin rimmed wide mouth with a shallow bottom.