चातुर्द्वीपक (cAturdvIpaka)
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishcāturdvīpaka, adj., f. °ikā or (rarely) °akā, also as subst. m. (nt.?) and f. (cf. Pali cātuddī°, adj., and prec., next, and caturdvī°), as adj., of, containing, consisting of four continents
of the world
as subst., m. (nt.?) or f., the world, as containing four continents: °aka, masc. adj. with lokadhātu, Gv 〔107.2〕
〔325.3〕
Śikṣ 〔282.3, 9〕
LV 〔149.21 f.〕
Mvy 〔3046〕
adj. with sattva, °pakānāṃ ca sattvānām, and of creatures of the world, Dbh 〔81.17〕
adj. f. °ikā, with lokadhātu, Gv 〔233.23〕
subst. m. (nt.?), madhye cāturdvīpakasya, in the middle of the world, Gv 〔352.10〕
subst. f., usually °ikā, once at least °akā, world-of-four-continents, but usually regarded as only a part of a lokadhātu, which contains a plurality of cāturdvīpikā: trisāhasramahāsāhasrāyāṃ lokadhātau sarvacāturdvīpakāsu Gv 〔380.1〕, but in 〔380.3〕 same phrase with °dvīpikāsu
(tasmin … lokadhātau) madhyamā cāturdvīpikā Gv 〔232.8〕, the middle earth in this world-system
similarly Gv 〔268.6〕
〔380.26〕
in Gv 〔373.17〕 the cāturdvipikā named Bhāgavatī, q.v., is part of a trisāhasramahāsāhasrā lokadhātu, and itself in turn contains a Jambudvīpa.
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