1. An island, peninsula, or land surrounded by water. 2. A sandbank. 3. A place of refuge, shelter, or protection. 4. A protector. 5. A division of the terrestrial world.
द्वीप (dvīpa) [Printed book page 0445-c] द्वीप (dvīpa) dvīpa, as, am, m. n. (fr.
dvi + ap, water), an island, peninsula, any land surrounded by
water, a sandbank; a place of refuge, shelter, protec-
tion, a protector; a division of the terrestrial world
(of which according to different authorities there are
seven or four or nine or thirteen and which are
situated round the mountain Meru like the leaves
Page0446-a+ 76 encircling a lotus flower; each Dvīpa is separated from
the next by a distinct circumambient ocean: the seven
Dvīpas, reckoning from the central one, are Jambu,
Plaksha or Go-medaka, Śālmalī, Kuśa, Krauñca,
Śāka, and Puṣkara: according to Mahā-bhārata,
Bhīṣma-parva 208, there are four Dvīpas, viz.
Bhadrāśva, Ketu-māla, Jambu-dvīpa, and Uttarāḥ
kuravas. In Viṣṇu-Purāṇa II. 3. nine Dvīpas are
enumerated, which are sometimes joined with the
above-named four, so as to make thirteen in all);
a tiger's skin?; (according to some) cubebs; [cf.
dvīpa-sambhava.]
—Dvīpa-karpūraka or
dvīpa- karpūraja (?), as, m. camphor from China.
—Dvī- pa-kumāra, ās, m. pl. (with Jainas) N. of a class
of deities belonging to the Bhavana-patis.
—Dvīpa- kharjūra or
dvīpa-ja, am, n. a kind of fruit tree,
= mahā-pārevata.
—Dvīpa-chandira, N. of a place
mentioned in the Tarka-bhāṣā-prakāśikā by Cinna-
bhaṭṭa.
—Dvīpa-vat, ān, atī, at, abounding in
islands; (
ān), m. the ocean; a river; (
tī), f. a river;
the earth.
—Dvīpa-śatru, us, m. Asparagus Race-
mosus (
= śatāvarī; cf. the right form
dvīpi-śatru and
dvīpikā).
—Dvīpa-śreṣṭha, as, am, m. n.
best of islands.
—Dvīpa-sambhava, as, m. the
largest sort of raisin [cf.
dvīpya]; Vernonia Anthel-
minthica; (
ā), f. a kind of date.
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