Tryambaka
त्र्यम्बक tryambaka'The three-eyed' (or, in the older Vedic sense, 'three-mothered') one; an epithet of Rudra, later Shiva, the deity addressed in the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra.
Where this term appears
- Who is Parvati? Deities
What the Vedic ritual literature does have is Ambika: in the Tryambaka offering of the Vajasaneyi Samhita (3.57), Ambika receives her share of the oblation as Rudra's svasa , his sister.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
The same verse appears, word for word, in both the White and the Black recensions of the Yajurveda, embedded in a rite called the Traiyambaka-homa , the offering to Rudra the Tryambaka.
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
At Varanasi is Vishvesha, and on the bank of the Gautami (the Godavari) is Tryambaka; in the Himalaya is Kedara, and at Shivalaya is Ghushmesha.
- The Court Treatise
…n four-natha lists that descend from Trika lineage-specific teachers (Tryambaka, Matsyendra, Sukla, and so on, depending on which Trika sub-lineage is being traced).
- The Great Mantras Treatise
It addresses Tryambaka , "the three-eyed," an epithet the tradition identifies with Rudra-Shiva, though an honest note adds that the verse sits in a hymn to the Maruts and the Shaiva reading is a later identifi…
- The Six Amnayas Treatise
…s ( Skanda , Kumara , Guha , Subrahmanya , Brahmanya ); Mrityunjaya ; Tryambaka ; and Pratyangira in her five forms ( Brahmi , Narayani , Raudri , Ugra Kritya , Atharvana Bhadrakali ).