tridasha
त्रिदश tridaśa'The thirty', a common designation for the gods as a collective, derived from the classical count of thirty-three (eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Adityas, and two more).
Where this term appears
- The Classes of the Gods Treatise
…ckoned as "the thirty-three" — trayastriṃśa — and later simply as the tridaśa , "the thirty." The classical accounting, spelled out in the epics and Purāṇas, breaks the thirty-three into its classes: eight Vasu…