tváṣṭṛ m. a carpenter, maker of carriages (= táṣṭṛ), [AV. xii, 3, 33]
‘creator of living beings’, the heavenly builder, N. of a god (called su-kṛ́t, -pāṇí, -gábhasti, -jániman, sv-ápas, apásām apástama, viśvá-rūpa &c., [RV.]; maker of divine implements, esp. of Indra's thunderbolt and teacher of the Ṛbhus, [i], [iv]-[vi], [x]; [Hariv. 12146 f.]; [R. ii, 91, 12]; former of the bodies of men and animals, hence called ‘firstborn’ and invoked for the sake of offspring, esp. in the Āprī hymns, [RV.]; [AV.] &c., [MBh. iv, 1178]; [Hariv. 587 ff.]; [Ragh. vi, 32]; associated with the similar deities Dhātṛ, Savitṛ, Prajā-pati, Pūṣan, and surrounded by divine females [gnā́s, janáyas, devā́nām pátnīs; cf. tváṣṭā-várūtrī] recipients of his generative energy, [RV.]; [ŚBr. i]; [KātyŚr. iii]; supposed author of [RV. x, 184] with the epithet Garbha-pati, [RAnukr.]; father of Saraṇyū [Su-reṇu, [Hariv.]; Sva-reṇu, [L.]] whose double twin-children by Vivasvat [or Vāyu ? [RV. viii, 26, 21 f.]] are Yama-Yamī and the Aśvins, [x, 17, 1 f.]; [Nir. xii, 10]; [Bṛh.]; [Hariv. 545 ff.]; [VP.]; also father of Tri-śiras or Viśvarūpa, [ib.]; overpowered by Indra who recovers the Soma [[RV. iii f.]] concealed by him because Indra had killed his son Viśva-rūpa, [TS. ii]; [ŚBr. i], [v], [xii]; regent of the Nakṣatra Citrā, [TBr.]; [ŚāṅkhGṛ.]; [Śāntik.]; [VarBṛS. iic, 4]; of the 5th cycle of Jupiter, [viii, 23]; of an eclipse, [iii, 6]; tvaṣṭur ātithya N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.])
a form of the sun, [MBh. iii, 146]; [Hariv. 13143]; [BhP. iii, 6, 15]
(styled mahā-graha), [Parāś.]
N. of the 12th Muhūrta, [Sūryapr.]
of an Āditya, [MBh. i]; [Hariv.]; [BhP. vi, 6, 37]; [VP. i, 15, 130]; [ii, 10, 16]
of a Rudra, [i, 15, 122]
of a son of Manasyu or Bhauvana, [ii, 1, 40]; [BhP. v, 15, 13.]