[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s6.199 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s6.199](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.199) 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. - [Previous: c5.s6.198](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.198) - [Next: c5.s6.200](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.200) - [Up: c5.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.199](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.199) · Pramāṇa