[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.545 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c5.545](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.545) 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. - [Previous: c5.544](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.544) - [Next: c5.546](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.546) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.545](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.545) · Pramāṇa