Kusamba (Kusumba).-A sage (isi), on the site of whose hermitage was built the city which came, for that reason, to be called Kosambī. SNA.i.300; MA.ii.539; UdA.248; PsA.413; see also Rāmāyana i.34.

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from