Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.545

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Tri-śaṅku is in Vedic literature the name of a sage mentioned as a teacher in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad.¹ There is no trace of the later legend by which he becomes the victim of Vasiṣṭha’s curse and the object of Viśvāmitra’s solicitude, being eventually fixed in the sky as a constellation.² The confusion of the chronology in the tales of Triśaṅku is a good example of the worthlessness of the supposed epic tradition.