AMARA SINHA (c. A.D. 375), Sanskrit grammarian and poet. He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya," and according to the evidence of Hsiian Tsang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya that flour ished about A.D. 375. The only work of his which survives is the Amara-Kosha (Treasury of Amara), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the "Tripartite." It contains I 0,000 words, and is arranged, like other works of its class, in metre, to aid the memory.
The first chapter of the Kosha was printed at Rome in Tamil character in 1798. An edition of the entire work, with English notes and an index by H. T. Colebrooke, appeared at Serampore in 18o8. The Sanskrit text was printed at Calcutta in 1831. A French trans lation by A. L. A. Loiseleur-Deslongchamps was published at Paris in 1839.