हामालय — {hāmâlaya} m. 'abode of snow', the Himâlaya range of mountains (bounding India on the north and containing the highest elevations in the world##in mythology personified as husband of Menā or Menaka {by whom he had a son ṃainska} and father of Parvati, 'daughter of the Mountain', and of Gaṅgs, who, as the personified Ganges, is generally regarded as his eldest daughter) &c##the white Khadira tree##({ā}), f. Flacourtia Cataphracta {-sutā} f. 'daughter of HimṭHimâlaya', Pārvati 2