dvaṃdvá n. (the repeated nom. of dva) pair, couple, male and female TS. Br. MBh. Kāv. &c. (ám, e, or ena 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.
• 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-), PIṇ. ii, 2, 29 ; 4, 2
• m. N. of sev. Ekâhas 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.