Tripura

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 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.

…econd hand, since his book has not been read here, and the number the Tripura Upanishad arrives at, at its third verse, by counting aloud: she was one, then nine, then nineteen, then twenty-nine, then forty-and…

Three asuras built three flying cities, Tripura , fortresses of gold, silver, and iron, and became nearly invincible.

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.

Maheshvarananda ascribes six works to him in all, five of which, the Rjuvimarshini among them, Rastogi classes under the Tripura system.

She is Bhairavi , fully Tripura Bhairavi , and her name is the feminine of Bhairava , the Terrifying One, the fierce form of Shiva.

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.