Trivedi

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Trivedi

Trivedi is a Northern and Western <a href="/en/Family_name" title="Family name" class="mw-redirect wl">family name</a> from <a href="/en/India" title="India" class="wl">India</a><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a> reflecting the mastery over three of the four <a href="/en/Veda" title="Veda" class="mw-redirect wl">vedas</a> (including the Vedic Branch he was born into). In <a href="/en/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit" class="wl">Sanskrit</a> Trivedi means 'one that knows the three <a href="/en/Vedas" title="Vedas" class="wl">Vedas</a>’, from tri = 'three' + veda ‘(sacred) knowledge' leading to vedi = 'to see'. Similar family names are <a href="/en/Chaturvedi" title="Chaturvedi" class="wl">Chaturvedi</a> (one who knows four vedas) and <a href="/en/Dwivedi" title="Dwivedi" class="wl">Dwivedi</a> (one who knows two vedas). They are also known as Tripathi and Tiwari in some parts of north India.

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Trivedi is a Northern and Western family name from India reflecting the mastery over three of the four vedas . In Sanskrit Trivedi means 'one that knows the three Vedas’, from tri = 'three' + veda ‘ knowledge' leading to vedi = 'to see'. Similar family names are Chaturvedi and Dwivedi . They are also known as Tripathi and Tiwari in some parts of north India. 