A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.545
A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.545
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DWIVIDA. 1. An Asura in the form of a great ape, who was an implacable foe of the gods. He stole Bala-rāma’s plough-share weapon and derided him. This was the beginning of a terrific fight, in which Dwivida was felled to the earth, and “the crest of the mountain on which he fell was splintered into a hundred pieces by the weight of his body, as if the Thunderer had shivered it with his thunderbolt.” 2. A monkey ally of Rāma.