Tritiya

Tritiya is the third day of the lunar fortnight. It is associated with Rudra and is auspicious for a vrata that is observed by married couples for the sake of obtaining marital bliss.

Brahma created Rudra and asked him to perform the act of creation. Rudra however expressed his inability to do so. And Brahma advised Rudra to go and obtain greater powers through meditating under the water. Rudra meditated for ten thousand years under the water. After this period of meditation was over, he emerged from the water with a luminous body. He had now become powerful and could create as he willed.

Dakshayani was Daksha’s daughter. Daksha had organised a wonderful yajna and many gods and sages had come to attend the ceremony. When Rudra emerged from the water, he found that the yajna was going on.