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Tvashtr (Sanskrit: त्वष्टृ, IAST:
Tvaṣṭṛ) or
Tvashta (Sanskrit: त्वष्टा, IAST: Tvaṣṭā) is a
Vedic Hindu artisan god or fashioner. He is
mentioned as an...
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identified with Pra****ati
rather than
Tvaṣṭṛ. In
later mythology,
Vishvakarman is
sometimes identified with
Tvaṣṭṛ and is a
craftsman deity. Vishvakarma's...
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Twelve Ādityas (personified deities) – Vishnu, Aryaman,
Indra (Śakra),
Tvāṣṭṛ, Varuṇa, Bhaga, Savitṛ, Vivasvat, Aṃśa, Mitra, Pūṣan, Dhata.
Indra also...
- Ymir
based on
etymology and a
comparison with
Vedic Indian mythology: as
Tvastr,
through his
daughter Saranyū and her
husband Vivaswān, is said to have...
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Savitr belongs to a
class of
Vedic theonyms,
together with Dhatṛ, Tratṛ and
Tvastr.
These names denote that
these are
agent gods, who create, protect, and...
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Murray (January 1942). "Some
Objections to Old
Norse þjazi =
Sanskrit Tvaṣṭṛ".
Harvard Theological Review. 35 (1): 83–86. doi:10.1017/S0017816000005174...
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ignorant persons. The
Rigveda states that the
weapon was made for
Indra by
Tvaṣṭṛ, the
maker of
divine instruments. The ****ociated
story describes Indra using...
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epithets of Shiva. In
another instance, they are
described as sons of
Tvastr and named:
Vishvarupa Ajaikapad Ahi
Budhnya Virupaksa Raivata Hara Bahurupa...
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another Rigvedic legend, the three-headed
serpent Viśvarūpa, the son of
Tvaṣṭṛ,
guards a
wealth of cows and horses.
Indra delivers Viśvarūpa to a god named...
- universe. It
first appears as a name of Trisiras, the three-headed son of
Tvastr, the
Vedic creator-god who
grants form to all beings. In the Rig Veda, he...
