Kadamba untranslated

Kadamba 01. Kadambaka The river that flows past Anurādhapura, on the eastern side, now called the Malvatu Oya (Mhv.vii.43; and Trs.58, n.3). Near the river was the Nivattacetiya (Mhv.xv.10). The river ford, the Gaṅgalatittha (Mhv­ṭ.361), formed the beginning of the boundary line of the sīmā of the Mahā Vihāra, and this line also ended at the river bank (Mhv.xv.191). The road from Anurādhapura to Cetiyagiri lay across the Kadambanadī, and pious kings, such as Mahā Dāṭhika Mahā Nāga, spread carpets from the river up to the mountain so that pilgrims could wash their feet in the river and approach the mountain shrines with clean feet (Mhv.xxxiv.78).

The road from the Kadamba river to Thūpārāma passed through the Rājamātudvāra (SN­a.i.173). Moggallāna II. dammed up the river among the mountains and thus formed three tanks, the Pattapāsāṇavāpi, the Dhanavāpi, and the Garītara (Cv.xli.61), and Udaya II. built a weir for the overflow of the river (Cv.li.130).

In the time of Kakusandha Buddha, the capital of Ceylon, Abhayanagara, lay to the east of Kadambanadī (Mhv.xv.59; Dpv.xv.39; xvii.12; see also Mbv.120, 134f).

See also Kalamba.

Kadamba 02. A mountain near Himavā. Seven Pacceka Buddhas once lived there. Ap.ii.382.