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tryambaka

try—àmbaka m. ‘three-eyed’ (originally probably ‘three-mothered’ fr. the threefold expression ámbe ámbiké 'mbālike, [VS.] &c.; cf. tri-mātṛ́ and traimātura) Rudra or (later on) Śiva, [RV. vii, 59, 12]; [VS.] &c. (triy-, [Kapiṣṭh. viii, 10]; [R. vii]; [Kum. iii, 44]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 77], Vārtt., [Pat.])

N. of one of the 11 Rudras, [MBh. iii]; [Hariv.]; [VP. i, 15, 123]; [NarasP. v, 9]

pl. (= traiy°) the cakes sacred to Rudra Try-ambaka, [TS. iii]; [TBr. i]; [Kāṭh.]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; [ĀśvŚr.]

sg. the ceremony in which those cakes, are offered, [ŚāṅkhŚr. xiv, 10, 21]

(also) N. of a sacred bathing-place at the source of the Godāvarī (commonly called Trimbak, and renowned for a temple of the three-eyed god Śiva).

try—àmbaka n. N. of a Liṅga, [ŚivaP. i, 38, 19]

try—àmbaka mfn. knowing the 3 Vedas or pervading the 3 worlds, [TejobUp. 6]