In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Tryambuka (त्र्यम्बुक) refers to “flies”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [as the great Nāga kings said to the Bhagavān]: “[...] We will ripen crops, flowers and fruits. We will ward off all stinging insects, mosquitos, locusts, creeping animals, frogs, flies (tryambuka), bees, horseflies, centipedes, bees, parrots and mynas. We will destroy them. We will eliminate all calamities and troubles. [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Tryambuka (त्र्यम्बुक) or Trembuka.—q.v.: Mahā-Māyūrī 252.2 (prose), in long [compound], before trailāṭaka.

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Tryambuka (त्र्यम्बुक).—m. (= trembuka, probably the true original form), a kind of fly: Mahāvyutpatti 4862 = Tibetan sbraṅ (misprinted sbruṅ) bu (fly) tryam bu ka; probably by popular [etymology], as if tri-ambu(ka); Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya iv.74.22.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Tryambuka (त्र्यम्बुक):—[=try-ambuka] [from try] a kind of fly, [Buddhist literature; cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Tryambuka in German

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Ambuka, Tri.

Full-text: Trembuka.

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