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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).

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  • 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…

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