Treta, Tretā: 18 definitions
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Tretā (त्रेता).—At the commencement of this Yuga, Brahmā established the social polity of castes and orders; long life, learning, strength, beauty, health and righteousness were common; in course of time moha made men irreligious and prejudiced; they appealed to Manu who created two sons, Priyavrata and Uttānapāda through Śatarūpā; they were the first kings of the earth; here was the division of the Śamhitā, Mantra, Ṛṣi and Brāhmaṇa; the dharma meant truth, japa, tapas and dāna; the kings were Cakravartins;1 the dharma of;2 see Tretāyuga.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Kavya (poetry)
Tretā (त्रेता) refers to 1) the age of that name, or 2) the three sacrificial fires (garhapatya, āhavanīya and dakṣiṇa), and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 17.146.
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
Tretā (त्रेता) or Tretāyuga refers to the age associated with Jālandhara, one of the sacred seats (pīṭha), according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—The Kumārikākhaṇḍa displays most of the many new developments that took place after the revelation of the Kubjikāmatatantra including those concerning the sacred seats. [...] Although the seats are the same five described in the Kubjikāmatatantra and its expansions, their contents [i.e., the Tretā-yuga] and the beings who inhabit them are quite different.
Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Tretā (त्रेता) or Tretāyuga refers to the “second age” (during which certain elephants appeared), according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 1, “on the origin of elephants”]: “[...] ‘State’ elephants, furnished with their characteristic marks, were produced (prevailingly) in the (‘golden’) kṛta age; elephants of the ‘slow’ caste in the (second) treta [=tretāyuga]; in the (third) age called dvāpara, these elephants known as ‘deer’; in this very kali age those of ‘mixed’ caste. Here the production of elephants according to their different castes is set forth, each appropriate to its association with (its respective) world age”.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Treta (त्रेत) or Tretayuga refers to one of the “Four Ages” (in Indic mythology) which are known in Tibetan as: dus bzhi.—The full list is: kṛta, treta, dvapara and kali-yugas.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
General definition (in Buddhism)
Tretā (त्रेता) or Tretāyuga refers to the “threefold-life age” and represents the second of the “four ages” (yuga) as defined in the Dharma-saṃgraha (section 88). The Dharma-samgraha (Dharmasangraha) is an extensive glossary of Buddhist technical terms in Sanskrit (e.g., tretā). The work is attributed to Nagarjuna who lived around the 2nd century A.D.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
trētā (त्रेता).—f or trētāyuga n (S) The second yuga or age, consisting of 12,96,000 years.
trētā (त्रेता).—f trētāyuga n The 2nd yuga or age.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Tretā (त्रेता).—
1) A triad, triplet.
2) The three sacred fires taken collectively (gārhapatya, dakṣiṇa and āhavanīya); cf. Manusmṛti 2.231; Bhāgavata 9.14.44; त्रेताग्निधूमाग्रमनिन्द्यकीर्ते- स्तस्येदमाक्रान्तविमानमार्गम् (tretāgnidhūmāgramanindyakīrte- stasyedamākrāntavimānamārgam) R.13.37.
3) A particular throw at dice, a cast of three or trey; त्रेताहृतसर्वस्वः (tretāhṛtasarvasvaḥ) Mṛcchakaṭika 2.8.
4) The second of the four Yugas of the Hindus; see युग (yuga).
Tretā (त्रेता).—f.
(-tā) 1. The second Yuga or age of the Hindus, consisting of 1,296,000 years. 2. The three sacred fires collectively, or the southern, household, and sacrificial fires. E. tra preservation, &c. derived from trai to preserve, ita obtained, got.
Tretā (त्रेता).— (i. e. probably traya + tā), f. 1. A triad, Mahābhārata 14, 2759. 2. The three sacred fires, Mahābhārata 5, 1559. 3. A die, or the side of a die, which has three points, [Mṛcchakaṭikā, (ed. Stenzler.)] 33, 9. 4. The name of the second yuga, or age, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 9, 201.
Tretā (त्रेता).—[feminine] a triad, the three sacred fires, the die or side of the die marked with three points; the second Yuga or age of the world.
1) Tretā (त्रेता):—f. ([from] traya) and triad, triplet, [Mahābhārata xiv, 2759]
2) the 3 sacred fires (= agni-), [v, 1559; Harivaṃśa 1410]
3) trey (throw at dice or the side of a die marked with 3 spots), [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā xxx, 18; Taittirīya-saṃhitā iv; Mṛcchakaṭikā ii, 9]
4) ‘age of triads’, the 2nd Yuga (or silver age), [Aitareya-brāhmaṇa; Muṇḍaka-upaniṣad; Śāṅkhāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Manu-smṛti etc.]
Tretā (त्रेता):—(tā) 1. f. The second Yug or age; the three sacred fires.
Tretā (त्रेता):—(von traya) f.
1) Dreizahl: dharmādyo hi yathā tretā vahnistretā tathaiva ca . tathaiva putrapautrāṇāṃ svargastretā kilākṣayaḥ .. [Mahābhārata 14, 2759.] agnitretā die drei heiligen Feuer [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 231.] [Mahābhārata 12, 3995. 3410.] eko gniḥ pūrvamevāsīdailastretāmakārayat [Harivaṃśa 1410.] tretāgni = agnitretā [1409.] [Mahābhārata 13, 3059. 6429.] [Raghuvaṃśa 13, 37.] tretāgnihotra [Mahābhārata 12, 6001.] Sehr häufig ist tretā allein = agnitretā [Amarakoṣa 2, 7, 19. 3, 4, 14, 71.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 826.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 171.] [Medinīkoṣa t. 23] tretāpūtaṃ dhūmamāghrāya [Mahābhārata 5, 1559.] tridhā praṇīto jvalano munibhirvedapāragaiḥ . atastretātvamāpanno yadekastrividhaḥ kṛtaḥ .. [Harivaṃśa 11863.] —
2) derjenige Würfel oder diejenige Würfelseite, welche mit drei Augen bezeichnet ist (s. die Erklärer zu [Chāndogyopaniṣad 4, 1, 4] und [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 285, Nalopākhyāna]): kṛtam, trotā, dvāparaḥ, āskandaḥ [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 30, 18.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 4, 3, 3, 1], wo noch abhibhūḥ hinzukommt. tretāhṛtasarvasva [Mṛcchakaṭikā 33, 9.] tretāya [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 285,] [Nalopākhyāna] —
3) mit oder ohne yuga N. des 2ten Yuga oder Weltalters, das Yuga mit den Dreizahlen [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 14, 71.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 112.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] kaliḥ śayāno bhavati saṃjihānastu dvāparaḥ . uttiṣṭhaṃstretā bhavati kṛtaṃ saṃpadyate caran [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 7, 15.] [Muṇḍakopaniṣad 1, 2, 1.] [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 15, 19, 11.] [NIDĀNAS. 1, 6.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 301. 302. 1, 83. 85. 86.] trīṇi varṣasahasrāṇi tretāyugamihocyate . tasya tāvacchatī saṃdhyā saṃdhyāṃśaśca tathāvidhaḥ .. [Mahābhārata 3, 12827.] [Harivaṃśa 512. 11309. fgg.] [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 11, 17.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 23.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 11, 18. fgg.] daṇḍanītyāṃ yadā rājā trīnaṃśānanuvartate . caturthamaṃśamutsṛjya tadā tretā pravartate .. [Mahābhārata 12, 2682.] tretāmukhe prathame yuge [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 10, 16.] — Vgl. kṛta 3, f. g.
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Tretā (त्रेता):—
2) chandāṃsi [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 110. 113. fgg.] stoma [110.]
Tretā (त्रेता):—f. —
1) Dreizahl. —
2) die drei heiligen Feuer. —
3) derjenige Würfel oder diejenige Würfelseite , welche mit drei Augen bezeichnet ist. —
4) das zweite Weltalter (das mit den Dreizahlen).
Tretā (त्रेता) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Teā.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
Tretā (त्रेता):—(nm) the second of the four ages according the Hindu mythology—the silver age.
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Partial matches: The, The, Treta, Te.
Starts with: Tretachandas, Tretagni, Tretagnihotra, Tretalisa, Tretamukha, Tretastoma, Tretatva, Tretaya, Tretayuga.
Full-text (+154): Tretayuga, Agnitreta, Yuga, Tretastoma, Tretatva, Tretachandas, Agnayi, Kaliyuga, Tretagni, Dvaparayuga, Dvapara, Caturyuga, Amgnatreta, Tretaya, Kritayuga, Tretini, Agrayi, Kushasthala, Rama, Krita.
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Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 10 - Pilgrimages in the Arbuda region during Kali Yuga < [Section 3 - Arbuda-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 53 - Origin of Centre of Pilgrimage with Brahmā’s foot < [Section 3 - Arbuda-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 19 - Incarnations of Śrī Viṣṇu < [Section 1 - Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya]
Mahabharata (English) (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli)
Section CXLII < [Bhagavat-Yana Parva]
Section CCXXXI < [Mokshadharma Parva]
Section CXLVIII < [Tirtha-yatra Parva]
Garuda Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
Chapter CCXXXII - Dissolution of the Universe < [Dhanvantari Samhita]
Chapter XV - Enumeration of one thousand epithets of Vishnu < [Agastya Samhita]
Puranic Theory of the Yugas and Kalpas < [Purana, Volume 11, Part 2 (1969)]
Megasthenes and Indian Chronology (Part 5) < [Purana, Volume 10, Part 2 (1968)]
Avataras and Yugas: An Essay in Puranic Cosmology < [Purana, Volume 6, Part 1 (1964)]
Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Chapter II - An account of the Shudras and women in the Kali age < [Book VI]
Chapter II - Of the seven future Manus and Manvantaras < [Book III]
Chapter III - Description of Bharata-varsha < [Book II]
Bhagavata Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 17 - The Descent of the Gaṅgā < [Book 5 - Fifth Skandha]
Chapter 5 - Yuga-wise Methods of Worshipping the Lord < [Book 11 - Eleventh Skandha]
Chapter 3 - Dharma (Righteous Way of Life) in every Yuga: Efficacy of God’s Name < [Book 12 - Twelfth Skandha]