a celebrated Sanscrit poet and grammarian, who published a valuable Thesaurus of that language, called Amara Kosha. He is believed by some to have flourished in the fifth century of our era. It is stated by Wilson, that his work contains only the roots of Sanscrit, amounting to 10,000. The best edition of his work is that of Serampore, by H. T. Colebrooke, in 1806, reprinted in 1829. See Wilson's Sanscrit Dict, and Asiatic Res. vii.

AMARANTE, an order of knighthood instituted in Sweden by Queen Christina in 1653, at the close of an annual feast celebrated in that country called Wirtschaft. This feast was solemnized with entertainments, balls, masquerades, and similar diversions, and continued from evening till the next morning. Christina considering the name too vulgar, changed it into that of the feast of the gods, because each of the party represented some heathen deity. The queen herself assumed the name of Amarante; that is, un-