The three worlds of the older Vedic scheme: earth, mid-air, and heaven, named by the three vyāhṛtis bhūr, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ. Later expanded into the fourteen lokas.

Where this term appears

• Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials →

  It has three worlds, the trailokya : earth, the mid-air, and the sky.

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