Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 3): Route-book of the western parts of the Himálaya, Tibet, and Central Asia: and geographical glossary from the languages of India and Tibet, including the phonetic transcription and interpretation (Leipzig, 1863)

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TIEHUT-TRIYENI.

Tirhut, a town, Lat. 26°, Long. 85°, and district, in Bengal...... ^jayj Hind.

"The (country) enclosed by rivers." From the Sanskrit Tira-bhukti (the country
with) river-limits, this province being bordered on three sides by rivers, viz., by the Gin-
dak, the Ganges, and the Kosi, with the Himilaya-tarai to the north.

Tista, or Tiskta, properly Trisrotas.

a river in Si'kkim and Bengal, Lat. 25°, Long. 88° ff[^\ properly f^^fj^ Sanskr.

"The river ivith three branches." From tri, three, and srotas, river. Wilford, As.
Res., Vol. XIV., p. 420.

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Tisum, in Gnari Khorsum, Lat. 31°, Long. 80° . . . TZH53 &sti-#sum. Tib.

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"Three halts." Bsti, halt; #sum, three.

The natives refer it to its being a halting-place where three roads meet. Compare Sum do.

Tonagiidi. on Ramfeer Island, near Ceylon, Lat. 9°, Long. 79° .... Tamul.

"Water-temple." Tona, ivater; gtidi, temple. M'Kenzie, As. Res., Vol. VI., p. 428.

Trankebar, in the Karnatik, Lat. 11°, Long. 80°............. Sanskr.

"The place of waves." We find this interpretation in Stein's "Handbuch der Geogr.,"
Vol. II., p. 585, which can be connected with the Sanskrit taring a, the wave.

Trichinapalli, or Trichinopoli, in the Karnatik, Lat. 10°,

Long. 78°.................................. Sanskr. Tam.

"The town of the three-headed (god)." Tri, three; siras, the head. This is a sur-
name of Kuvera, the god of ivealth; palli is the ordinary Tamul word for village. This
name undergoes many minor variations of its original form, such as: Trissirapilli, Tiri-
chirapalli, Tirichirapuram, &c.; the present form of the word is probably an arbitrary
European alteration.

Trijugi(orTriyugi)Narain, inGarhvil,Lat.30°,Long. 78°f^^fTTTT"RT3Ercj Sanskr.

"Narayan existing during three ages." This epithet of Vishnu is here applied to
a village.

TrikoilOnialli................................. Sanskr. Tamul.

"The three-topped mountain." The modes of spelling this name are very various,
e. g. Trikonamalli, Tirukkanamalai, Tirukkunarramalai, Tirikonamalai, &c.

Trisul, a peak in Kamion, Lat. 30°, Long. 79° . Jj.*^' properly Jybj3 Hind., f%3T^ Sanskr.
"Trident" (an emblem of Mahadeva).

Triveni, in Hindostan, Lat. 25°, Long. 81°........... is**)}2 Hind'' f^«t^ft Sanskr.

"(Confluence of) three rivers."' Especially applied to the confluence of the Ganges
and Jimna at Allahabad, joined, it is thought, by the Sarasviti under ground.