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the mouth of it to prevent Ms getting out, but lie broke through
them -with ease. The Nitl-manjari tells the story differently.
Ekata, Dwita, and Trita were travelling in a desert and suffered
from thirst. They came to a well from which Trita drew water
and gave it to his "brothers. In order to appropriate his property
the two brothers threw him into the well, placed a cart*
wheel over it, and there left him. Trita prayed earnestly to the
gods, and with their help he escaped.
TBJTSUS. A people frequently mentioned in the Veda.
Sayarca says they were " priests who were Vasishtfha's disciples/*
Vasishtfha himself is said to have belonged to the tribe.
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TRI-VEJVX The triple braid. 7 A name of Prayaga. It is
so called because the Ganges and Jumna here unite, and the
Saraswati is supposed to join them by an underground channel
TRI-VIKRAMA A name of Vishnu used in the j^g-veda,
and referring to three steps or paces which he is represented as
taking. These steps, according to the opinion of a commentator,
are "the three periods of the sun's course,
his rising, culminating,
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and setting. An old commentator says, Vishnu stepped by sepa-
rate strides over the whole universe. In three places he planted
his step, one step on the earth, a second in the atmosphere, and
a third in the sky, in the successive forms of Agni, Vayu, and
Surya." The great commentator Sayana, a comparatively modern
writer, understands these steps as being the three steps of Vishnu
in the Vamana or dwarf incarnation, and no doubt they were
the origin of this fiction.
TRYAMBAKA, '
Three-eyed,'
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or Having three wives or
sisters.' i. A name of Siva. 2. One of the Rudras. 3. Name
of one of the twelve great Lingas. See Linga,
TRYARWA. A king, son of Trivnshan, of the race of
Ikshwaku. He was riding in a chariot which Vrisa, his purohita
or family priest, was driving. The vehicle passed over and
killed a Brahman boy, and a question arose as to who was
responsible for the death. The question was referred to an
assembly of the Ikshwakus, and they decided it against Vrisa.
The purohit by his prayers then restored the boy to life, and
being very angry with them for what he deemed partiality, " fire
henceforth ceased to perform its functions in their dwellings,
and the cooking of their food and other offices ceased." The
Ikshwakus appeased him, and upon his prayers the use of