Jambudvīpa
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jambudv-pa-187-9634899
title:
Jambudvīpa
text:
Jambudvīpa is a name often used to describe the territory of Greater India in ancient Indian sources. The term is based on the concept of dvīpa, meaning "island" or "continent" in ancient Indian cosmogony. The term Jambudvipa was used by Ashoka to represent his realm in the third century BCE. The same terminology was used in subsequent texts, for instance Kannada inscriptions from the tenth century CE which also described the region, presumably Ancient India, as Jambudvipa. The word Jambudvīpa l
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Sanskrit endonym of the Indian subcontinent
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambudv%C4%ABpa
date created:
2005-07-30T03:21:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T12:38:00Z
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13
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