trimurti
Three supreme deities
Trimurti is the Hindu concept of the three principal deities—Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer—understood as three aspects or manifestations of one supreme reality.
The term comes from Sanskrit meaning "three forms." Unlike the Christian Trinity, which posits three persons in one God, the Trimurti represents three distinct gods unified in cosmic function: The temple's central sculpture depicted the Trimurti as three faces emerging from a single head. (Capitalized Trimurti is standard; lowercase is rare.)
Hindu god of creation
- VishnuHindu deity of preservation
- ShivaHindu god of dissolution
- threefoldHaving three parts
- creatorOne who produces something
preserver · destroyer · Brahman · unity · manifestation · godhead · cosmic cycle · triadic
Making something exist
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- cosmic cycleRepeating universal pattern
- universeComplete system or domain
dissolution · manifestation · regeneration · cosmic order · maya · emanation
Hindu canonical texts
- UpanishadsVedic philosophical scriptures
- Bhagavad GitaHindu philosophical dialogue
- MahabharataSanskrit war epic
- RamayanaSanskrit heroic verse narrative
dharma · karma · moksha · samsara · avatar · puja · mantra · meditation
Hindu goddess of wisdom
- LakshmiGoddess of wealth, beauty
- ParvatiHindu goddess of fertility
- goddessFemale sacred being
- shaktiHindu spiritual force
divine feminine · consort · Durga · Uma · Sri
Shaped three-dimensional art
- reliefEasing of distress
- carvingShaping by cutting away
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- attributesInherent characteristics or properties
lotus · trident · discus · sacred imagery · iconographic · poses · mudra · mount
Brahma
Hindu god of creation
creator · preserver · destroyer · Brahman · unity · manifestation · godhead · cosmic cycle · triadic
creation
Making something exist
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- cosmic cycleRepeating universal pattern
universe · dissolution · manifestation · regeneration · cosmic order · maya · emanation
Vedas
Hindu canonical texts
- UpanishadsVedic philosophical scriptures
- Bhagavad GitaHindu philosophical dialogue
- MahabharataSanskrit war epic
Ramayana · dharma · karma · moksha · samsara · avatar · puja · mantra · meditation · yoga
Saraswati
Hindu goddess of wisdom
sculpture
Shaped three-dimensional art
attributes · lotus · trident · discus · sacred imagery · iconographic · poses · mudra · mount
trimurtiprimordial chaos
Formless state before creation
chaos · entropy · formlessness · maya · nihil
trimurtiatheism
Rejection of deities
godlessness · non-theism · materialism · naturalism · physicalism
triple, triangle, tripod, triad, triplets, trinity, tripartite, trilateral, trinitarian