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dvaṃdva द्वंद्व – pair of opposites; duality

substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

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AYI dictionary substantive neuter

pair of opposites; duality

Cappeller 1891 substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive neuter

dvaṃdvá ·n. pair, couple, esp. a pair of opposites (as male & female, heat & cold, etc.); duality, contrast; duel, strife, fight; m. n. a copulative compound (g.). -- Acc. & instr. by pairs.

Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

dvaṃdvá (ein wiederholtes dva; der Nasal ist Endung des nom.) n. P. 8,1,15. 1〉 n. Paar, insbes. Mann und Weib, Männchen und Weibchen, = yugma und mithuna AK. 2,5,38. AK. 3,4,27,214. TRIK. 2,5,38. H. 538. H. 1424. H. an. 2,523. fg. MED. v. 10. VAIJ. beim Schol. zu ŚIŚ. 4,64. AIT. BR. 2,27. dvaṃdvaṃ vai mithunaṃ tasmāddvaṃdvānmithunaṃ prajāyate AIT. BR. 3,50. TS. 1,6,9,4. ŚAT. BR. 5,3,3,14. KUMĀRAS. 3,35. dvaṃdvaṃ dakṣamarīcisaṃbhavamidam ŚĀK. 186. cāraṇa˚ ŚĀK. 47. MEGH. 46. mṛga˚ RAGH. 1,40. na cendīvaradvaṃdve locanatāṃ gate BHARTṚ. 1,77. aṅghri˚ BHĀG. P. 3,15,44. DHŪRTAS. 67,6. kuca˚ ŚṚṄGĀRAT. 19. rajanī˚ H. 144. ādityāḥ sādhirājāno nāmadvaṃdvairudāhṛtāḥ MBH. 2,448. dvaṃdvena paarweise: ta evamājāvasurāḥ surendrā dvaṃdvena saṃhatya ca yudhyamānāḥ BHĀG. P. 8,10,34. dvaṃdvam dass.: dvaṃdvamindreṇa devatāḥ śasyante AIT. BR. 3,50. ŚAT. BR. 1,1,1,22. ŚĀṄKH. BR. 14,5. prakrīḍitāśca te dvaṃdvamutpeturyugapattadā HARIV. 3745. HARIV. 3747. dvaṃdvamanye yuyutsavaḥ HARIV. 2671. Hierher gehören auch mehrere der beim Schol. zu P. 8,1,15 (vgl. P. 3,1,64) aufgeführten, künstlich gedeuteten Beispiele. — 2〉 n. ein Paar entgegengesetzter Zustände, Gegensätze (Hitze und Kälte, Freude und Leid u. s. w.) VAIJ. titikṣā śītoṣṇādidvaṃdvasahiṣṇutā VEDĀNTAS. (Allah.) No. 12. KAUṢ. UP._in_Ind. St. 1,401,3. dvaṃdvairayojayaccemāḥ sukhaduḥkhādibhiḥ prajāḥ M. 1,26. sarvadvaṃdvavinirmukta M. 6,81. ˚sahiṣṇutva MBH. 3,17373. dvaṃdvaireva jagatsarvamabhitaptamidaṃ sadā R. GORR. 2,84,20. trīṇi dvaṃdvāni bhūteṣu pravṛttānyaśeṣataḥ . teṣu cāparihāryeṣu naivaṃ bhavitumarhasi .. R. SCHL. 2,77,23. YOGAS. 2,48. SUŚR. 1,113,14. SUŚR. 1,261,8. BHĀG. P. 1,18,50. BHĀG. P. 4,7,28. BHĀG. P. 4,22,24. ˚duḥkha ŚIŚ. 4,64. — 3〉 n. Streit, Zank; Kampf, = kalaha, āhava, yuddha AK. 3,4,27,214. H. 797. MED. VAIJ. Sch. zu P. 8,1,15. tathā kaliyuge rājandvaṃdvamāpedire janāḥ MBH. 12,7557. śataṃ dadyānna vivadediti prājñasya lakṣaṇam . vinā hetumapi dvaṃdvametanmūrkhasya lakṣaṇam .. HIT. III, 32. — 4〉 n. ein Kampf zu Zweien, Zweikampf: yotsye vipra tvayā saha . dvaṃdve MBH. 5,7083. evaṃ dvaṃdvasahasrāṇi rathavāraṇavājinām MBH. 6,1749. evaṃ dvaṃdvaśatānyāsaṃstvadīyānāṃ paraiḥ saha . ghorarūpāṇi MBH. 9,568. dvaṃdvaṃ dāsyāmi te tadā R. 1,75,29. R. 3,54,4. dvaṃdve yasya na tiṣṭhanti devagandharvadānavāḥ R. 6,12,10. dvaṃdvaṃ samīyuḥ R. 18,22. R. 3,52. Vgl. dvaṃdvayuddha. — 5〉 Zweifel: dvaṃdabhūtaḥ (sic) parigrahe zweifelnd, zögernd, unschlüssig MBH. 1,1867. — 6〉 n. Feste, Festung; = durga ŚKDR. (Suppl.) — 7〉 n. Geheimniss P. 8,1,15. H. an. MED. VAIJ. dvaṃdvaṃ (adv.?) mantrayate P. 8,1,15, Sch. — 8〉 m. (sc. samāsa) und n. (VS. PRĀT.) in der Gramm. eine Zusammensetzung zweier (dieses das Ursprüngliche) oder mehrerer einander coordinirter, durch `und´ verbunden gedachter Begriffe H. an. VS. PRĀT. 2,55. VS. PRĀT. 3,126. VS. PRĀT. 5,28. P. 2,2,29. P. 2,4,2. nakṣatra˚ P. 1,2,63. devatā˚ P. 6,2,141. P. 7,3,21. akṣarāṇāmakāro 'smi dvaṃdvaḥ sāmāsikasya ca BHAG. 10,33. — 9〉 m. N. mehrerer Ekāha KĀTY. ŚR. 22,10,7. — 10〉 m. die Zwillinge im Thierkreise ŚABDAR._bei_WILS. — 11〉 m. eine durch die Complication zweier Flüssigkeiten des Körpers (s. u. doṣa) hervorgerufene Krankheitserscheinung ŚABDAR. — Vgl. nirdvaṃdva.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

dvaṃdva 1〉 Z. 6 zu BHARTṚ. 1,77 vgl. Spr. 1654. — 5〉 die ed. Bomb. dvaṃdvabhūtaḥ. — 7〉 dvaṃdve hyetatpravaktavyam so v. a. unter vier Augen R. 7,103,11. st. vācaṃ dvaṃdvaṃ samīritam R. 7,103,14 ist wohl dvaṃdve samīritām zu lesen. — 8〉 devatā˚ AV. PRĀT. 4,49.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

dvaṃdvá — 1〉 n. — a〉 Paar. insbes. Mann und Weib, Männchen und Weibchen. dvaṃdvám und dvaṃdvena — α〉 paarweise. — β〉 unter vier Augen (daher die Bed. Geheimniss bei den Lexicographen). — b〉 ein Paar entgegengesetzter Zustände, Gegensätze (Hitze und Kälte, Freude und Leid u. s. w.). — c〉 Streit, Zank, Kampf. — d〉 Zweikampf. — e〉 Streit, Wettstreit. mujaṃgadvaṃdvairabhraiḥ so v. a. mit schlangenähnlichen Wolken BĀLAR. 188,6. — f〉 *Feste, Festung. — 2〉 m. n. in der Grammatik eine Zusammensetzung zweier (dieses das Ursprüngliche) oder mehrerer einander coordinirter, durch und verbunden gedachter Begriffe. — 3〉 m. — a〉 die Zwillinge im Thierkreise GOLĀDHY. 8,60. Geschlecht nicht zu bestimmen. — b〉 Name verschiedener Ekāha. — c〉 ein best. Tact S. S. S. 213. — d〉 *eine durch die Complication zweier Flüssigkeiten des Körpers hervorgerufene Krankheitserscheinung.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

dvaṃdva III. Loc. so v. a. unter vier Augen R. 7,103,11. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

Apte 1890 substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

dvaṃdvaṃ [dvau dvau sahābhivyaktau; cf. P. VIII. 1. 15. Sk.] 1 A pair, couple. 2 A couple of animals (including even men) of different sexes, i. e. male and female; dvaṃdvāni bhāvaṃ kriyayā vivavruḥ Ku. 3. 35; Me. 45; na cedidaṃ dvaṃdvamayojayiṣyat Ku. 7. 66; R. 1. 40; Ś. 2. 14, Ś. 7. 27. 3 A couple of opposite conditions or qualities, (such as sukha and duḥkha, śīta and uṣṇa); balavatī hi dvaṃdvānāṃ pravṛtiḥ K. 135; dvaṃdvairayojayaccemāḥ sukhaduḥkhādibhiḥ prajāḥ Ms. 1. 26; Ms. 6. 81; sarvarttunirvṛtikare nivasannupaiti na dvaṃdvaduḥkhamiha kiṃcidakiṃcano'pi Śi. 4. 64. 4 A strife, contention, quarrel, dispute, fight. 5 A duel. 6 Doubt, uncertainty. 7 A fortress, stronghold. 8 A secret. — dvaḥ 1 (In gram.) One of the four principal kinds of compounds, in which two or more words are joined together which, if not compounded, would stand in the same case and be connected by the copulative conjunction ‘and’; cārthe dvaṃdvaḥ P. II. 2. 29; dvaṃdvaḥ sāmāsikasya ca Bg. 10. 33. 2 A kind of ([Page 0587-a]) disease. 3 The sign Gemini of the zodiac. Comp. — cara, cārin a. living in couples. ( — m.) the ruddy goose; dayitā dvaṃdvacaraṃ patattriṇaṃ R. 8. 56, R. 16. 63. — ja a. 1 produced from morbid affection of two humours. 2 arising from a quarrel 3 arising from a couple. — bhāvaḥ antagonism, discord. — bhinnaṃ separation of the sexes. — bhūta a. 1 forming a couple. 2 doubtful, uncertain. — mohaḥ trouble caused by doubt. — yuddhaṃ a duel, a single combat.

Cappeller 1887 substantive neuter

Original text · German · substantive neuter

dvaṃdvá n. Paar, Dualismus, Gegensatz, Zweikampf, Streit, Wettstreit; Acc. u. Instr. adv. paarweise. m. n. ein copulatives Compsitum (g.).

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