閻浮

(閻浮, 阎浮)

[lang id =1028]瞻部 Jambu (at present the rose-apple, the (la) Eugenia Jambolana), described as a lofty tree giving its name to [lang id =1028]閻浮提 Jambudvīpa, 'one of the seven continents or rather large islands surrounding the mountain Meru; it is so named either from the Jambu trees abounding in it, or from an enormous Jambu tree on Mount Meru visible like a standard to the whole continent'; 'the central division of the world.' M.W. With Buddhists it is the southern of the four continents, shaped like a triangle resembling the triangular leaves of the Jambu tree, and called after a forest of such trees on Meru.

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見閻浮提條。