त्र्यम्बक

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

TRYAMBAKA   One of the Ekādaśa Rudras (eleven Rudras). See under Ekādaśarudra).

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : शंकर

नेपाली (Nepali) WN

See : शङ्कर

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

त्र्य्म्बक  m.  m. ‘three-eyed’ (originally probably ‘three-mothered’ fr. the threefold expression अ॑म्बे अ॑म्बिके॑ ऽम्बालिके, [VS.] &c.; cf. त्रि-मातृ॑ and त्रैमातुर) रुद्र or (later on) शिव, [RV. vii, 59, 12]; [VS.] &c. ( त्रिय्-, [Kapiṣṭh. viii, 10]; [R. vii]; [Kum. iii, 44]; cf. [Pāṇ. 6-4, 77], Vārtt., [Pat.])
N. of one of the 11 रुद्रs, [MBh. iii]; [Hariv.]; [VP. i, 15, 123]; [NarasP. v, 9]
त्रैय्°   (= ) the cakes sacred to रुद्र त्र्य्-अम्बक, [TS. iii]; [TBr. i]; [Kāṭh.]; [ŚBr.]; [ŚāṅkhBr.]; KātyŚr.; [ĀśvŚr.]
sg. the ceremony in which those cakes, are offered, [ŚāṅkhŚr. xiv, 10, 21]
N. of a sacred bathing-place at the source of the गोदावरी (commonly called Trimbak, and renowned for a temple of the three-eyed god शिव).
त्र्य्म्बक  n.  n. N. of a लिङ्ग, [ŚivaP. i, 38, 19]
त्र्य्म्बक  mfn.  mfn. knowing the 3 वेदs or pervading the 3 worlds, [TejobUp. 6]

Shabda-Sagara

त्र्यम्बक  m.  ( -कः) A name of SIVA.
E. त्रि three, (the three Vedas,) अबि to speak or sound, and कन् added; or त्रि may mean the three letters, अ, उ, म, combined in the mystical word ओम् .

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त्रि अबि कन् त्रि अ उ म ओम् .