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From Sanskrit काल (kāla) + -ంబు (-mbu).
కాలంబు • (kālambu) ? (plural కాలంబులు)
- (poetic, archaic) time
- Budaraju Radhakrishna (1971) “కాలంబు”, in Early Telugu Inscriptions (up to 1100 A.D.) with Texts, Glossary & Brief Linguistic History., Kalabhavan, Saifabad, Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi, page 273.