cAturdvIpaka
cāturdvīpaka , adj. , f. °ikā or (rarely) °akā , also as subst. m. ( nt. ?) and f. ( cf. Pali cātuddī°, adj. , and prec. , next, and caturdvī° ), as adj. , of, containing, consisting of four continents; of the world ; as subst. , m. ( nt. ?) or f. , the world , as containing four continents: °aka, masc. adj. with lokadhātu, Gv 107.2 ; 325.3 ; Śikṣ 282.3, 9 ; LV 149.21 f. ; Mvy 3046 ; adj. with sattva, °pakānāṃ ca sattvānām, and of creatures of the world , Dbh 81.17 ; adj. f. °ikā, with lokadhātu, Gv 233.23 ; subst. m. ( nt. ?), madhye cāturdvīpakasya, in the middle of the world , Gv 352.10 ; subst. f. , usually °ikā, once at least °akā, world-of-four-continents , but usually regarded as only a part of a lokadhātu, which contains a plurality of cāturdvīpikā: trisāhasramahāsāhasrāyāṃ lokadhātau sarvacāturdvīpakāsu Gv 380.1 , but in 380.3 same phrase with °dvīpikāsu; (tasmin … lokadhātau) madhyamā cāturdvīpikā Gv 232.8 , the middle earth in this world-system ; similarly Gv 268.6 ; 380.26 ; in Gv 373.17 the cāturdvipikā named Bhāgavatī , q.v. , is part of a trisāhasramahāsāhasrā lokadhātu, and itself in turn contains a Jambudvīpa.