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dvaṃdva

dvaṃdvá n. (the repeated nom. of dva) pair, couple, male and female, [TS.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (°ám ind., °dve ind., or °dvena ind. by two, face to face, secretly)

a pair of opposites (e.g. heat and cold, joy and sorrow &c.), [Up.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c.

strife, quarrel, contest, fight (esp. between two persons, a duel), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.]

stronghold, fortress, [L.]

dvaṃdvá m. (scil. samāsa; rarely n.) a copulative compound (or any compound in which the members if uncompounded would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction, ‘and’, cf. devatā-, nakṣatra-), [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 29]; [4, 2]

dvaṃdvá m. N. of sev. Ekāhas, [KātyŚr.]

the sign of the zodiac Gemini, [Gol.]

(in music) a kind of measure

a species of disease, a complication of two disorders, a compound affection of two humours, [L.]