Ambaṭṭhagotta untranslated

Ambaṭṭhagotta. The clan to which Ambaṭṭhamāṇava belonged. The Kaṇhāyanagotta was probably one of its chief sections, or, perhaps, the family of its original ancestors. In the Buddha’s time the clan was evidently considered very aristocratic, at least by its own members, for they looked down upon even the Sākiyans as scourings from their kinsmen’s feet, though the Sākiyans themselves seem to have laughed at the pretensions of the Ambaṭṭhas (See Ambaṭṭhamāṇava above). Nor were the Ambaṭṭhas Brahmins by birth; some of them were farmers and traders and some even sold their daughters for gold. Ja.iv.363; they were called Brahmins by courtesy vohāravasena (ibid., 366).

According to the Māṇavadhammaśāstra, they were not sprung from Kṣatriya father and a slave (presumably Śūdra) mother, as given in the Ambaṭṭhasutta, but from a Brahmin father and a Vaiśya mother.

The Ambaṭṭhas were of an old stock and were well-known. Besides the Ambaṭṭhamāṇava mentioned above, another Ambaṭṭha, called Sūra, is spoken of in the Piṭakas (e.g., AN.i.26; iii.451).