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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

त्रित m. " third " (?) , N. of a Vedic deity (associated with the मरुत्s , वायु, and इन्द्र; fighting like the latter with त्वाष्ट्र, वृत्र, and other demons ; called आप्त्य[See. ] , " water-deity " , and supposed to reside in the remotest regions of the world , whence [ RV. viii , 47 , 13-15 AV. ] the idea of wishing to remove calamity to -T त्वाष्ट्र, and the view of the त्रितs being the keepers of nectar [ RV. vi , 44 , 23 ] , similarly L. [ RV. ii , 34 , 10 TS. i TBr. i ] the notion of त्रित's bestowing long life ; also conceived as an inferior deity conquering the demons by order and with the help of इन्द्र[ RV. ii ; viii , 52 , 1 ; x ] ; fallen into a well he begged aid from the gods [ i , 105 , 17 ; x , 8 , 7 ] ; as to this last myth Sa1y. on i , 105 relates that 3 ऋषिs , एकत, द्वित, and त्रित, parched with thirst , looked about and found a well , and when -T त्वाष्ट्रbegan to draw water , the other two , desirous of his property , pushed him down and closed up the well with a wheel ; shut up there , -T त्वाष्ट्रcomposed a hymn to the gods , and managed miraculously to prepare the sacrificial सोम, that he might drink it himself , or offer it to the deities and so be extricated: this is alluded to in RV. ix , 34 , 4 [ cf. 32 , 2 ; 38 , 2 ; 102 , 2 ] and described in MBh. ix , 2095 ; also Nir. iv , 6 makes him a ऋषि, and he is the supposed author of RV. i , 105 ; viii , 36 ; ix , 33 f. and 102 ; x , 1-7 ; in epic legends [ MBh. ix , xii f. ] एकत, द्वित, and -T त्वाष्ट्रare described as 3 brothers , sons of गौतमor of प्रजा-पतिor ब्रह्मा; elsewhere -T त्वाष्ट्रis one of the 12 sons of मनुचाक्षुषby नड्वलाBhP. iv , 13 , 16 ; cf. त्रैतन; Zd. Thrita ; ? , ? , etc. )

त्रित n. triplet of young (three-twin) TS. Sch.

Purana Encyclopedia

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

TRITA :

1) General information. A son of the sage Gautama. He had two brothers called Ekata and Dvita. (See under Ekata).

2) Other details.

(i) Ekata, Dvita and Trita were born to clean the hands of the devas when they become smeared with the sacrificial butter during the yāgas. Of these Trita once fell into a well while drawing water and the asuras closed the well. But Trita escaped opening the top. (Sūkta 52, Anuvāka 10, Maṇḍala 1, Ṛgveda).

(ii) Once Ekata, Dvita and Trita were stranded in a desert and desperately needed water to quench an in- creasing thirst. At last they found a well and Trita after getting down and quenching his thirst brought water to his brothers. The cruel brothers, after drinking the water pushed Trita into the well and covered the well with the wheel of a bullock-cart. Trita prayed to the Aśvinīdevas for help and they appeared before him and rescued him from the well. (Sūkta 105, Maṇḍala 1, Ṛgveda).


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Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Trita is clearly a god in Vedic literature, but Yāska in one passage of the Nirukta already explains the name as that of a Ṛṣi or seer.