త్రివేణి

Telugu

Etymology

From త్రి- (tri-) +‎ వేణి (vēṇi).

Noun

త్రివేణి • (trivēṇi) ? (plural త్రివేణులు)

  1. literally: the triple-braided, an epithet of the Ganges which, according to mythology, springs in three streams from the head of Siva

References

"త్రివేణి" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 570

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