Geography/Culture: Hindustani: Jain.
Linguistic Note: see Amba's linguistic note below.
Description: Goddess of nature, especially Autumn and the harvest; Genetrix; She Whose concern is water conservation and water controlled for use by people; Genitrix and tutelary deity of the Jains; Defeater of demons; She Who assumes the form of Autumn in order to destroy beings through fever and other autumnal diseases; She Who gives Her name {in what Hindustani language(s)?} to autumn as the most productive season; Ruler of the emotions; She Who is to be propitiated at the height of the harvest season, and to be worshiped before digging water-tanks.
To Whom Sacred: animal and human sacrifice; the forehead (seat of the emotions especially of wrath; She gave birth to Kali, Black-One, from Her head); water-reservoirs; grains and fruits.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• No doubt etymologically related to Amba, Mother, below.
• Balambika, Girl-Mother, may be a form of Her, below.
• A form of, and alternate name for, Durga, Inaccessible-One.
• A title of Gauri, Brilliant-White.
• Hemambika, Golden-Mother, may be a form of Her, below.
• Mother, and title, of Kali, Black-One, Who was born from Her head.
• Mukhambika, Mouth-Mother, may be a form of Her, below.
• A title of Parvati, She-of-the-Mountains, Who is linked with Uma, Gracious-One.
• One of Her titles is Sakambhari, Herb-Bearing, below.
• Ambika, Mother, is also a title of Uma, Gracious-One, Herself.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Linguistic Note: In southern Indian languages amba becomes amma and is frequently affixed to names of Goddesses and females in general. It is also a common name for Dravidian Mother Goddesses and may be that from which Uma's name is derived. Compare with German Amme, nurse; Old German, amma.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Variant Amma.
• Title or alternate name for Durga, Inaccessible-One.
• Perhaps origin of Norse Amma, Grandmother, Who is linked with Edda, Great-Grandmother.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The name of one of the seven Krttikas, ----, Who are linked with Ganga, Swift-Goer.
• See also Gauri, Brilliant-White.

Geography/Culture: Hindustan, South: tantric.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Identical with Kanya-Kumari, K1NY*-KWM*RE, ----, the divinity of Cape Comorin. Linguistic Note: Kumari is the name of one of the seven holy rivers that wash away sin. Kanya means -- the Virgin.

Geography/Culture: Hindustan: Tantric. She has a shrine in Palghat, South Malabar.
Description: She is represented, not as a figure, but by a pair of hands protruding from a miniature well. Legend attributes this form to the "lewd attentions" of the priestly ministrant responsible for ritually bathing Her.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• See also Sakti, Divine-Energy.
• She is associated with: Balambika, Girl-Mother, above.
• And associated with Mukambika, Mouth-Mother, below.

Geography/Culture: Hindustan. She has a shrine in North Cannanore on the Malabar coast.
Description: Only the lower portion of the Goddess's head is depicted.

Geography/Culture: Probably of pre-Vedic origin.
It may be She Who is portrayed, upside-down, naked, with a plant issuing from Her womb on an oblong Harappan seal.
Description: Goddess of vegetation; She Who from Her body produces the life-sustaining vegetables.
Iconography: An oblong Harappa seal depicts a nude female figure, upside down, from whose womb issues a plant. A similar Gupta terracotta figure has a lotus issuing from Her neck.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title of Ambika, Mother, above.
• Subsequently identified with Durga, Inaccessible-One.
• Alternate name for Parvati, She-of-the-Mountains, Who is linked with Uma, Gracious-One.
• Sakambhara, ----, would appear to be a variant but see Sitala, ----, Who is linked with Jyestha, Elder-Sister.
• Alternate name for Uma, Gracious-One.