Trivedi

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Northern and Western Aryan family name from Asia Minor and India reflecting the mastery of a brahmin over the three vedas. (including the Vedic Branch he was born into). Many scholars opine that just like Brahma's three heads, there are only three vedas and the fourth was added later. Aryan (Brahmin) name from Sanskrit Trivedi ‘one that knows the three Vedas’, from tri = ‘three’ + veda ‘(sacred) knowledge’ leading to vedi = 'to see'. The Vedas are the oldest sacred texts of the ancient aryan religion and one of the oldest texts known to mankind.

The name is also associated with Roman/Syrian settlers from the 2nd century exiled in modern day India.

[edit] Trivedi In History

Recent clay tablets uncovered near Ahmadabad suggest that Nishant Trivedi was in fact a Hindu warlord who invaded modern-day Gujarat from Bihar in the 15th century BC. Cornell South Asia Archives

To the modern reader, the most significant aspect of the unearthed clay tablets are some of the earliest references to non-Indus valley peoples. 71 He took the houses from the city of Maḫarmaḫaya [. . .] I [. . .]-ed. 72 "Why did you take that one for yourself?" Trvḫedi-[. . .] 73 he wrote, "Go from there down [. . .] 74 Come [to] My Sun! [. . .] I am sending. 75 Because Trvedhi̮ [. . ."] 76 [. . .] 76.....

[edit] See also

• Prashant Trivedi
• Saraswat Brahmins