ORIENTAL SERIES.

320 TRI-JA TATRI-MUR Tf.
TEI-JATA. An amiable Rakshasl who befriended Slta
when she was the captive of Ravana in Ceylon. She is also
called Dhanna-jna.
TRI-KAJVDA SESHA A Sanskrit vocabulary in three
chapters, composed as a supplement to the Amara-kosha. It
has been printed in India.
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TRI-KtTZA.
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Three i. peaks/ The mountain on which
the city of Lanka was built. 2. A mountain range running
south from Meru,
TRI-LOCHAKA r
Three-eyed,' ie., Siva, The Maha-bharata
relates that the third eye burst from Siva's forehead with a great
flame when his wife playfully placed her hands over his eyes
after he had been engaged in austerities in the Himalaya. This
eye has been very destructive. It reduced Kama, the god of
love, to ashes.
TRI-MURTL <
Triple
form/ The Hindu triad. This was
foreshadowed in the Yedic association of the three gods Agni,
Vayn, and Surya. The triad consists of the gods Brahma, Siva,
and Vishnu, the representatives of the creative, destructive,
and preservative principles. Brahma is the embodiment '"of
the Rajo-gu^a, the quality of passion or desire, by which the
world was called into being ; Siva is the embodied Tamo-guna,
the attribute of darkness or wrath, and the destructive fire by
which the earth is annihilated ; and Vishnu is the embodied
Satwa-guna, or property of mercy and goodness by which the
world is preserved. The three exist in one and one in three, as
the Veda is divided into three and is yet but one ; and they
all Asrita, or comprehended within that one being who is
Parama or '
supreme, 1
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or secret/ and Sarvatma, the soul
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of all things.'
The Padma Purana, which is a Vaislmava work and gives the
supremacy to Vishnu, says, "In the beginning of creation, the
great Vishnu, desirous of creating the whole world, became three-
fold : creator, preserver, and destroyer. In order to create this
world, the supreme spirit produced from the right side of his
body himself as Brahma ; then in order to preserve the world he
produced from the left side of his body Vishnu \ and in order to
destroy the world he produced from the middle of his body the
eternal Siva. Some worship Brahma, others Vishnu, others Siva;
but Vishnu, one yet threefold, creates, preserves, and destroys,