Tripura
त्रिपुर tripuraThe mythic 'triple city' of the asuras (three flying fortresses of gold, silver and iron), destroyed by Shiva (Tripurantaka) with a single arrow.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Saura was the tradition of the Sun: a priesthood, a canon of scriptures, and royal devotees, recognised as a peer by its rivals. A Śaiva text preserved in a…
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
The gentler poles of attraction and beauty belong to a goddess like Tripura Sundari, though she is above all a deity of liberation and should never be reduced to a love-charm.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
Three asuras built three flying cities, Tripura , fortresses of gold, silver, and iron, and became nearly invincible.
- Vimanas: did ancient India have flying machines? Journal
There is even a flying fortress: Tripura, the triple city of the asuras, three cities of gold, silver, and iron that float through sky, air, and earth until Shiva destroys all three with a single arrow.
- Bhairavi: The Fire Within Creation Treatise
She is Bhairavi , fully Tripura Bhairavi , and her name is the feminine of Bhairava , the Terrifying One, the fierce form of Shiva.
- Bhuvaneshvari: She Whose Body Is the World Treatise
After Kali who is time, Tara who ferries across, and Tripura Sundari throned above the gods, the fourth Mahavidya makes the gentlest and in some ways the most radical claim of all.
- Dhumavati: The Widow Made of Smoke Treatise
Kali is terrible but magnificent; Tara saves; Tripura Sundari is beauty itself; even Chhinnamasta, drinking her own blood, blazes.
- Four in the Morning Treatise
…undarya Lahari ’s verses on the kundalini ascending the spine, in the Tripura Rahasya ’s dialogue between Dattatreya and Parashurama on the nature of awareness, in the Tirumantiram ’s verse 2104 with its three …