Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1045.1

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2) Adhamatraya. (Three kinds of low people). The three classes of people who are considered to have a very low position in society are the wifeless, sonless and servantless ones.
3) Abhijātavihitatraya. (Three dealings with men of equal nobility). The three important dealings which should be had with only people of equal nobility are alliance, marriage and litigation.
4) Abhinayatraya. (Three kinds of acts). The three kinds of acts are the Hastābhinaya (actions with the hand), Aṅgyābhinaya (actions with gestures) and Rasābhinaya (actions with expressions of sentiment).
5) Avasthātraya. Man lives always in any one of the following states : Wakefulness, Dreaming and Sleep.
6) Avasthābhedatraya. The three different forms in which matter exists as Ghana, (solid) Drava (liquid) and Vātaka (gas).
7) Āsanatraya. Three kinds of important postures are Virāsana, Padmāsana, and Svastikāsana.
8) Itivṛttatraya. The three kinds of plots in a story are Prakhyāta, Utpādya and Miśra.
9) Ṛṇatraya. The three different kinds of debts of man are Deva-ṛṇa (debts to gods), Pitṛ-ṛṇa (debts to the Manes) and Ṛṣi-ṛṇa (debts to ṛṣis).
10) Eṣaṇātraya. Eṣaṇā means desire. The three kinds of eṣaṇās are Putra-iṣaṇā (desire for children), Vitta-iṣaṇā (desire for wealth) and Dāra-iṣaṇā (desire for wife).
11) Karaṇatraya. The three instruments of action are mind, speech and body.