Diva, پ, Tiva, Ṭīva, Dīvaa: 30 definitions
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Diva means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, Hindi, biology, Tamil. 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.
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexDiva (दि�).—Heaven; see also Suvarlokam; presiding deity is Sūrya, who is therefore known as Divaspati; here live Gandharvas, Rākṣasas, Apsarasas, Yakṣas, Nāgas, and men; five-fold route to, from Pātālam; equal to earth in measurement of rotation or border.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 2. 32; 124. 20. Vāyu-purāṇa 47. 9; 101. 19.

The Purana (पुरा�, 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.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantramپ (दिवा) refers to a “day�, according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, “Earth, Water, and Fire as well as Wind and Space—these are the five great sacred seats that give rise to Day and Night [i.e., 徱-Ծś]. (The seat named after) the syllable O� is the Earth Principle. Water is the venerable Pūrṇagiryaka. The Fire Principle is called Jāla. Wind is the venerable Kāmarūpaka. Space is said to be Tisra. The seats that have arisen from the Kula (the matrix of energies) are five. [...] Fire is above. Water is below. Slanted (to the side) above is Wind. Earth, in the middle, is the immobile Vidyā and Space is everywhere�.

Shakta (शाक्�, 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.
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by Varahamihiraپ (दिवा) refers to a “day�, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 8), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “If the disc of Jupiter should appear of the colour of fire, there will be fear from fire; if yellow, there will be disease in the land; if dark-blue, there will be wars; if green, suffering from thieves, and if of blood color, suffering from weapons. If the disc of Jupiter should appear of the colour of smoke, there will be drought; if it should be visible during day [i.e., 徱 dṛṣṭe], rulers will perish and if it should appear large and clear at night, mankind will be happy�.

Jyotisha (ज्योति�, dzپṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy� or “Vedic astrology� and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.
Yoga (school of philosophy)
: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birchپ (दिवा) refers to the “day�, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] The Yogin should not wake by day (徱) and should not sleep even for a fraction of the night. Night and day, the Yogin always sleeps in the natural [no-mind] state. For a man who remains in the pure, natural [no-mind state], there is not even the distinction of day and night, because [that] place is the bliss of mere consciousness, which is free from wakefulness and sleep. [...]�.

Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).
India history and geography
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical GlossaryDiva.�(CII 3, etc.), abbreviation of divasa or divase; used to denote the solar or, more properly, civil day. Note: diva is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary� as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
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پ.�(CII 3), ‘by day�; an indeclinable used in some of the Nepal inscriptions in composition with words denoting tithis or lunar days. Note: 徱 is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary� as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Biology (plants and animals)
: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Dhiva in India is the name of a plant defined with Zanthoxylum armatum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Zanthoxylum alatum Roxb..
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Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarydiva : (m.) heaven.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionaryپ, (adv.) (Ved. 徱, cp. diva) by day S.I, 183; M.I, 125; Dh.387; DA.I, 251; PvA.43, 142, 206 (=divasa-bhāge). Often combined & contrasted with ٳپ� (or ratto) by night; e.g. 徱ٳپ� by day & by night S.I, 47; 徱 c’eva rattiñ ca D.II, 20; rattim pi 徱 pi J.II, 133; 徱 ca ratto ca S.I, 33; Sn.223; Dh.296; Vv 314; VvA.128.�徱tara� (compar. adv.) later on in the day M.I, 125; J.III, 48, 498.�ati徱 too late S.I, 200; A.III, 117.
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Diva, (Sk. diva (nt.), weak base diǔ (div) of strong form d�ē (see deva) to *ịeǔ to shine; cp. Sk. dyo heaven, 徱 adv. by day; Lat. biduum (bi-divom) two days) (a) heaven J.IV, 134 (°� agā); V, 123 (°� patta); PvA.74 (°� gata).�(b) day Sn.507 (rattindiva� night & day); VvA.247 (rattindiva one night & one day, i.e. 24 hrs.); DhA.II, 8 (徱-divassa so early in the day). Also in diva�-kara, daymaker, =sun, VvA.307; usually as 徱kara (q. v.). Cp. devasika; see also ajja.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) diva (ဒိ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[divu+a.dibbanti sattā kiḷanti jotanti etthāti 徱.dī,ṭ�,3.35�(apa,ṭṭha,2.173�,ṭ�.1va.niruttimañjūsā.69).dī+a.va-āguṃ.dīyati khīyati andhakaro etenāti 徱.eka,ṭ�.58.diva+ka.thoma.(dia-prā)]
[ဒိဝ�+အ။ ဒိဗ္ဗန္တ� သတ္တ� ကိဠန္တ� ဇောတန္တ� ဧတ္ထာတ� ဒိဝါ။ ဒီ၊ဋီ၊၃။၃၅� (အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၁၇၃။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၁ဝ။ နိရုတ္တိမဉ္ဇူသာ။၆၉)� ဒ�+အ။ �-အာဂုံ။ ဒီယတ� ခီယတ� အန္ဓကရေ� ဧတေနာတ� ဒိဝါ။ ဧက၊ဋီ။၅၈။ဒိ�+က။ထောမ။(ဒိ�-ပြ�)]
2) 徱 (ဒိဝ�) [(bya) (ဗ�)]�
[nepātikampi 徱-saddamicchanti saddavidū.sī,ṭ�,,2.7.aha-aho ākāranta (vinayālaṅkāra,1.11�.,ṭ�,1147)ç paṭhamāç dutiyāç a ho (rū,nhā-133.nīti,sutta.nhā-379)ç kālasattamīaho (nīti,sutta.nhā-381)ç paṭhamāç dutiyāç sattamīç aho (sūci) ni.diva+ā.thoma�(diyā-addha-māgadhī,diā-prā)]
[နေပါတိကမ္ပ� ဒိဝ�-သဒ္ဒမိစ္ဆန္တ� သဒ္ဒဝိဒူ။ သီ၊ဋီ၊သစ်၊၂။၇။ အ�-အနက်ဟေ� အာကာရန္� (ဝိနယာလင်္ကာရ၊၁။၁၁� ဓာန်။ဓာန်၊ဋီ၊၁၁၄၇),ပဌမ�,ဒုတိယ�,� နက်ဟေ� (ရူ၊နှ�-၁၃၃။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။နှ�-၃၇�),ကာလသတ္တမီအနက်ဟေ� (နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။နှ�-၃၈�),ပဌမ�,ဒုတိယ�,သတ္တမ�,အနက်ဟေ� (သူစ�) နိပါတ်။ ဒိ�+အာ။ ထောမ။ (ဒိယ�-အဒ္�-မာဂဓီ၊ဒိအ�-ပြ�)]

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryṭīva (टी�).—f A bird, Crested shrike.
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tivā (तिवा).—m A disease of cattle.
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary徱 (दिवा).—m (ī貹 S) A lamp; a light with oil and a wick. Pr. gharānta 徱 tara dēvaḷānta 徱 Charity begins at home. Pr. divyākhālī� andhāra Every good man has some blemish. 2 An iron stick curved back at one end to be hooked up, and spreading at the other into a receptacle for oil and a wick. 3 A stick or stand gen. for a lamp; though usually it takes a prefix of lāmhaṇa, rōmaṇa &c. 4 The flour lampstand in marriages. 5 A common term for those days of the month Wyshakh on which the first five nakshatras occur. 6 A preparation of rice-flour in the form of a saucer: made and eaten on occasions. 徱 lāgata nāhī� (tyā dēśānta &c.) Phrase expressive of utter desolation and wildness (of a country &c.) 徱 lāvaṇēṃ To become notorious; to acquire celebrity (esp. for evil deeds). 徱 sarasā karaṇēṃ To bring near (to its proper spot in its groove) by pulling out or forwards the wick of a ī, in order to brighten or trim it. 徱ŧ� divasa ḍhṇĸ-ujēḍaṇēṃ To wake all the night. 徱ŧ� (ٰ or divasa) ḍhṇĸ or ōṭaṇĸ To have a light burning (all the night or all the day): i.e. to be in extreme sickness. divyāvātīnē� śōdhaṇēṃ To search closely; to explore every nook and corner, chink and crevice. divyāsa nirōpa dēṇēṃ-padara dēṇēṃ-phūla dēṇēṃ To extinguish the lamp.
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徱 (दिवा).—ad S By day; in the day time.
: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishtivā (तिवा).�m A disease of cattle.
: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English徱 (दिवा).�m A lamp; a stand for a lamp. ad By day. gharānta 徱 tara dēvaḷānta 徱 Charity begins at home. 徱 lāgata nāhī� (tyā dēśānta &c.) A phrase expressive of utter de- solation and wildness (of a country &c.) 徱 lāvaṇēṃ Acquire celebrity (for evil deeds), become notorious. 徱- lī andhāra Every good man has some blemish. 徱ŧ� divasa ḍhṇĸ-ujaḍaṇēṃ Wake all the night. 徱ŧ� (ٰ or divasa) ḍhṇĸ To have a light burning (all the night or all the day), to be in extreme ill ness. divyāvātīnē� śōdhaṇēṃ To search close, to explore every nook and corner. divyāsa nirōpa dēṇēṃ-padara dēṇēṃ To extinguish the lamp.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryDiva (दि�).—[dīvyatyatra ghañarthe ādhāre ka]
1) Heaven.
2) The sky; see दिव् (div); दिवं ते शिरस� व्याप्तम� (diva� te śirasā vyāptam) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.47.88.
3) A day.
4) A forest, wood, thicket.
Derivable forms: divam (दिवम�).
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پ (दिवा).�ind. By day, in the daytime; दिवाभू (徱bhū) 'to become day'.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryDiva (दि�).—n.
(-�) 1. Heaven, paradise. 2. Heaven, sky, atmosphere. 3. A day. 4. A wood, a thicket. E. div to play, to shine, &c. affix ghañarthe ādhāre vā ka� see the preceding.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryDiva (दि�).—[div + a] 1., n. 1. Heaven, Mahābhārata 3, 11746.
� Cf. tri-, n. Heaven (perhaps properly the third, the most holy heaven), [Բśٰ] 9, 253.
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پ (दिवा).—[div + ā], originally instr. of div, adv. 1. By day, [Բśٰ] 4, 50.
� Cf. [Latin] diu, du-dum, and 徱tana.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryDiva (दि�).—[neuter] heaven, day; dive dive day by day.
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پ (दिवा).�([instrumental] [adverb]) by day.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Diva (दि�):—[from div] n. heaven, sky, [Mahābhārata; Harivaṃśa]
2) [v.s. ...] day, [especially] in dive-dive, day by day, daily, [Ṛg-veda] and ifc. ([gana] ś徱)
3) [v.s. ...] wood, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) [v.s. ...] cf. ahar-, tri-, Բٲ�-, Բٲ�-bṛhad-. ٰ-, su-; cf. also διϝο Fo in ἐ�-διος [Latin] (?) biduum.
5) پ (दिवा):—[from div] ind. (for 徱, [instrumental case] of 3. div) [gana] 徱, by day (often opposed to naktam), [Ṛg-veda]
6) [v.s. ...] used also as [substantive] e.g. 徱 bhavati, [Chāndogya-upaniṣad iii, 11, 3]
7) [v.s. ...] (with ٰ), [Mahābhārata ii, 154 etc.]
8) [v.s. ...] [especially] in beginning of [compound]
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Diva (दि�):�(�) 1. n. Idem; a day; a wood.
2) پ (दिवा):�ind. By day.
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Diva (दि�) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Dia, پ.
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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.
Hindi dictionary
: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary1) پ (दिवा):�(nm) a day; ~[kara] the sun; -[ٰ] day and night; ~[svapna] a day-dream; •[] to day-dream; to build castles in the air.
2) Dīvā (दीवा):�(nm) see [ī].
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Prakrit-English dictionary
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary1) Ḍiva (डि�) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Ḍi.
2) Diva (दि�) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Div.
3) Diva (दि�) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Div.
4) Dīva (दी�) also relates to the Sanskrit word: ī貹.
5) Dīva (दी�) also relates to the Sanskrit word: ī貹.
6) Dīva (दी�) also relates to the Sanskrit word: ٱī貹.
7) Dīva (दी�) also relates to the Sanskrit word: ٱī貹.
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryDīvaa (दीवअ) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: ī貹ka.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusṬīva (ಟೀ�):—[noun] any of a genus (Vanellus) of black-and-white plovers; esp., the crested Vanellus vanellus with broad, rounded wings, noted for spectacular aerial displays; the lapwing.
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusDiva (ದಿ�):�
1) [noun] the abode of god, angels, etc.; the heaven.
2) [noun] the sky.
3) [noun] the time between sunrise and sunset; a day.
4) [noun] (pros.) a meter having three short syllables (uuu).
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Dīva (ದೀ�):�
1) [noun] a prey-animal used to lure another into a snare; a decoy.
2) [noun] a domestic animal.
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Dīva (ದೀ�):—[noun] a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent; an island.
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Dīva (ದೀ�):—[noun] an artificial source of light; a lamp.
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Dīva (ದೀ�):—[noun] a man who fishes for profit; a fisherman.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Tamil dictionary
: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil LexiconTivā (திவா) noun < 徱.
1. Day-time; பகல். (பிȨகலகண்ட�) திவாவினந்தமாகி� மாலையே [pagal. (pingalagandu) thivavinanthamagiya malaiye] (பிரமோத்தரகாண்டம் [piramotharagandam] 6, 2).
2. Day; நாள். (திவா.) நீ தகைமைகொண்ட திவாத் தினில் [nal. (thiva.) ni thagaimaigonda thivath thinil] (இரகுவமிசம் அயனு. [iraguvamisam ayanu.] 14).
3. See திவி². [ٳ².]
Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Nepali dictionary
: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionaryپ (दिवा):—n. day; daytime;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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