dvaṃdva | द्वंद्व | dvaMdva

dvaṃdva/ | द्वंद्व/ | n. (the repeated nom. of dva | द्व |) pair, couple, male and female, TS.; Br.; MBh.; Kāv. &c. (˚a/m | ˚अ/म् | ind., ˚dve | ˚द्वे | ind., or ˚dvena | ˚द्वेन | 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.
dvaṃdva/ | द्वंद्व/ | m. (scil. samāsa | समास |; rarely n.) a copulative compound (or any c˚ in which the members if uncompounded would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction, ‘and’, cf. devatā- | देवता- |, nakśatra- | नक्शत्र- |), Pāṇ. ii, 2, 29; 4, 2
dvaṃdva/ | द्वंद्व/ | 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.

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