Candradvipa, Candra-dvipa, Candradvīpa: 7 definitions

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Candradvipa means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Alternative spellings of this word include Chandradvipa.

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

[«previous next»] — Candradvipa in Purana glossary
Source: Wisdom Library: Varāha-purāṇa

Candradvīpa (चन्द्रद्वीप).—Name of a celestial region (dvīpa) covering one thousand yojanas, according to the Varāhapurāṇa chapter 84. In the middle of Candradvīpa are two waterfalls by the name Candrakānta and Sūryakānta, in the middle of whose the river Candrāvartā flows.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Candradvīpa (चन्द्रद्वीप).—South of Uttarakuru where Gods live; 1000 yojanas in circumference; in the midst is a hill containing precious mines from which Candrāvartā takes its rise; it is the place of the moon God; people in it are righteous and live to an age of 10,000 years.*

  • * Vāyu-purāṇa 45. 52-60.
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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

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Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)

[«previous next»] — Candradvipa in Shaktism glossary
Source: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantram

1) Candradvīpa (चन्द्रद्वीप) refers to the “Island of the Moon”, according to the Tantric texts such as the Kubjikāmata-tantra, the earliest popular and most authoritative Tantra of the Kubjikā cult.—Accordingly, “Candradvīpa (The Island of the Moon) is a great and beautiful garden. It has many trees and, divine, the ground is strewn with gems. It has many caves, lakes and thickets and is adorned with big lotuses. It is beautiful, very comfortable and full of many (pleasing) sounds. Always spring, the Lord of Love has taken up his residence there. It is located to the West of Meru near (Mount) Gandhamālya and, all around, its circumference (measures) 5,000 leagues (yojana). Full of many forests and hermitages, divine, it is the very beauty of the Moon and is adorned with a mountain peak. There, in the centre (of the Island), is a beautiful Stone that extends for a hundred leagues. It has doors and arches and burns brilliantly with enclosing walls (prākāra) and temple towers (śikhara)”.

Candradvīpa (The Island of the Moon) is said to be the fifth and most important of five Islands that correspond to five great cosmic ages (mahākalpa). We hear echoes of the sacred geography of the goddess’s myth in the description of these Islands. The Island of the Moon (candradvīpa) is the human world and the locus of creation. Grounded in a higher metaphysical identity it is “both manifest and unmanifest, the bliss which is the essence of emanation”. In the other reference, however, it fades out into a relatively minor symbolic cipher as just one of thirty-four ‘Islands’ where the deities of the thirty-four consonants reside.

2) Candradvīpa (चन्द्रद्वीप) (or Candrādi or Candraparvata) refers to one of the thirteen places (sthāna) associated with the Goddess’ pilgrimage, according to the Ṣaṭsāhasrasaṃhitā (verse 1.36-37, 4.5, 4.26-132), which is an expansion of the Kubjikāmatatantra: the earliest popular and most authoritative Tantra of the Kubjikā cult.

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Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.

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In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantram (tantric buddhism)

Candradvīpa (चन्द्रद्वीप) refers to a sacred sites and possibly corresponds to “southeast Bengal”, according to the Abhyākaragupta’s commentary Āmnāyamañjarī on the Sampuṭatantra.—Abhyākaragupta lived from the 11th to the first quarter of the 12th century. He was probably born in Magadha and received his Tantric training in Bengal (ibid. 136). Chapter seventeen of the Sampuṭatantra refers to six sacred sites, namely, Koṅkaṇa (Western Ghats), Candradvīpa (southeast Bengal?), Aṭṭahāsa (Bengal), Devīkoṭṭa (north Bengal), Haridvāra (modern Hardvar), and Jālandhara (Himachal Pradesh). Apart from Koṅkaṇa, an important place for the Kubjikā tradition also, these places are in the north of India. As Bengal is especially favoured, this Tantra may have been composed there. Abhyākaragupta adds another eighteen places to make twenty-four.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Candradvipa in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Candradvīpa (चन्द्रद्वीप):—[=candra-dvīpa] [from candra > cand] m. Name of a Dvīpa, [Romakasiddhānta]

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Candradvipa in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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