त्रिशङ्कवे triśaṅkave
4 syllables SLP1 triSaNkave

As a deity name

Name 612 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu

As a Hindi name

No reading on this path — this spelling has no entry in our Hindi sources, and no near neighbour is attested there either. We say so rather than invent one.

As a Sanskrit word

Meaning

a cat

Scripturally attested

Why this matches what you typed

M1 · same meaning "triśaṅkave" is the dative of "triśaṅku" — the same word in a different grammatical case.

Dictionary citations

Monier-Williams (1899) · त्रिशङ्कु (linked stem)

tri—śaṅku m. N. of a sage, TUp. i, 10

Monier-Williams (1899) · त्रिशङ्कु (linked stem)

of a king of Ayodhyā (aspiring to ascend to heaven in his mortal body, he first requested Vasiṣṭha to perform a great sacrifice for him; on Vasiṣṭha's refusing he applied to Vasiṣṭha's hundred sons, who cursed and degraded him to the rank of a Caṇḍāla [hence called a Caṇḍāla king, Divyāv. xxxiii]; Viśvā-mitra then undertook the sacrifice for him and invited all the gods, who declined to come and thereby so enraged the sage that, by his own power, he transported T˚ to heaven; on his being hurled down again head foremost by the gods, he was arrested in his course by Viśvā-mitra and remained suspended in the sky, forming the southern cross constellation, R. i, 57 ff. (R. G. i, 59) [son of Pṛthu]; Hariv. 730 ff. & VP. iv, 3, 13 f. [son of Trayyāruṇa]; [son of Tri-bandhana] BhP. ix, 7), MBh. i, xiii &c.

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