"To Tryambaka we make offering, The fragrant, increaser of prosperity; Like a cucumber from its stem, From death may I be loosened, not from immortality."
It is called the Rudra mantra, referring to the furious aspect of Shiva; the Tryambakammantra, alluding to Shiva’s three eyes; and it is sometimes known as the Mrita-Sanjivini mantra because it is a component of the “life-restoring” practice given to the primordial sage Shukra after he had completed an exhausting period of austerity.
tryambakam The prefix tri (pronounced with a short “i”) means “three.” When it is joined to ambakam, the letter “i” becomes “y,” and the word reads tryambakam.
Ambaka means “eye.” Tryambakam is “three-eyed,” an epithet for Shiva which alludes to a well-known story in which Parvati, Shiva’s wife, playfully places her hands over his eyes.
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