cāturdvīpaka (6184)

cāturdvīpaka
Entry 6184, Page 227, Col. 1

(cAturdvIpaka, cAturdvIpaka)
cāturdvīpaka¦, 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, con- sisting 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 sarvacāturdvīpa- kāsu 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.