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Shakadvipa (Sanskrit: शाकद्वीप, romanized:
Śākadvīpa, lit. 'teak island'), is an
island featured in
Hindu mythology. The
island is
named after a great...
- Nāga. A
considerable section deals with Sun
worship in a
place called "
Śākadvīpa"
which may be a
reference to Scythia. This
overlaps with Zoroastrianism-related...
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stated as Jambudvipa, Plaksadvipa, Salmalidvipa, Kusadvipa, Krouncadvipa,
Sakadvipa and Pushkaradvipa.
Seven intermediate oceans consist of salt-water, sugarcane...
- the Mahabharata.
Their original home was a
mythological region called Śākadvīpa.
According to
Varahamihira (c. 505 – c. 587), the
statue of the Sun god...
- Śālmaladvīpa
Suroda Bombax tree Kuśadvīpa Ghṛta
Desmotachya bipinnata Krauñcadvīpa Kṣīroda The Krauñca hill
Śākadvīpa Dadhi Teak Puṣkaradvīpa Jala Lotus...
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comparison with
Buddhist texts and
secular records, he
proposes that
Sakadvipa was not
Persia (or some
other territory, west of India) but a "mythico-geographical...
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allies the
Rishikas with the
Parama Kambojas and
places them both in the
Sakadvipa. The
Kambojas (i.e. the
southern branch of the
Parama Kambojas), are the...
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territory was
known as
Kumudadvipa and it
formed the
southern tip of the
Sakadvipa or Scythia. In
classical literature, this
people are
known as Komedes...
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locates them all in the trans-Himalayan territories, that is, in the
Sakadvipa.
Figurines of
foreigners in
Mathura Mahabharata attests that Pandava-putra...
- this text
narrate the
story of
bringing the
eighteen Maga
Brahmins from
Śākadvīpa by
Samba and
appointing them as the
priests of the
Surya temple in Mitravana...
