Tristhali
त्रिस्थली tristhalīThe 'three places', Prayag, Kashi and Gaya, the classic pilgrimage circuit for the rites of the dead; tradition assigns Gaya to redeem the ancestors, Prayag for merit, and Kashi for liberation.
Where this term appears
- The book of the city Treatise
…e is the literature of the pilgrimage rites themselves, above all the Tristhali Setu , the "bridge to the three sacred places", composed in the sixteenth century by the great Banaras scholar Narayana Bhatta, a …
- The debt to the dead Treatise
There is a circuit, the Tristhali , the "three places", Prayag and Kashi and Gaya, that the devout make for the sake of their dead, and Narayana Bhatta, the sixteenth-century Banaras scholar we met among the ci…