1. Kadamba, Kadambaka.-The river that flows past Anurádhapura, on the eastern side, now called the Malvatu Oya (Mhv.vii.43; and Trs.58, n.3). Near the river was the Nivatta-cetiya (Mhv.xv.10). The river ford, the Gangalatittha (MT.361), formed the beginning of the boundary line of the símá of the Mahávihára, and this line also ended at the river bank (Mhv.xv.191). The road from Anurádhapura to Cetiyagiri lay across the Kadamba-nadí, and pious kings, such as Mahá-Dáthika-Mahá-Nága, 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 Thúpáráma passed through the Rájamátudvára (SA.i.173). Moggallána II. dammed up the river among the mountains and thus formed three tanks, the Pattapásánavápi, the Dhanavápi, and the Garítara (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 Kadambanadí (Mhv.xv.59; Dpv.xv.39; xvii.12; see also Mbv.120, 134f).
See also Kalamba.
2. Kadamba.-A mountain near Himavá. Seven Pacceka Buddhas once lived there. Ap.ii.382.