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An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s6.199

An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s6.199

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Jambūdvīpa, name of the dvīpa south of Meru, and also of the whole circular central dvīpa. § 354 (Nalopākhyānap.): III, 79, 3066.—§ 574 (Jambūkh.): VI, 1, 9 (*°sya maṇḍalam*); I, 6δ, 207 (beside Meru lie four dvīpas—Bhadrāśva, Ketumāla, Jambūdvīpa, and Uttarāḥ Kuravaḥ; J. therefore in this passage cannot design the whole central dvīpa, the centre of which is Meru).—§ 574i (Jambū): VI, 7, 274 (named after the jambū tree Sudarśana).—§ 575b (Cākadvīpa): VI, 11, 409 (i.e. the central dvīpa opp. to Cākadvīpa), 428.—§ 575 (Bhūmip.): VI, 12, 467 (i.e. the central dvīpa).—§ 623 (Rājadh.): XII, 14, 404, 405 (beside Meru lie Jambūdvīpa, Krauñcadvīpa (to the south!), Cākadvīpa (to the east!), and Bhadrāśva (to the north!), cf. VI, 207).—§ 759 (Anuśāsanik): XIII, 107§, 5338.—§ 785 (Anugītāp.): XIV, 85, 2548. Cf. Jambūkhaṇḍa, Jambuparvata.