<Tr> <Th> Affiliation </Th> <Td> Deva </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Consort </Th> <Td> Tridevi </Td> </Tr> <P> The Trimūrti (/ trɪˈmʊərti /; Sanskrit: त्रिमूर्तिः trimūrti, "three forms") is the trinity of supreme divinity in Hinduism in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified as a triad of deities, typically Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, though individual denominations may vary from that particular line - up . When all three deities of the Trimurti incarnate into a single avatar, the avatar is known as Dattatreya . </P> <P> The Puranic period saw the rise of post-Vedic religion and the evolution of what R.C. Majumdar calls "synthetic Hinduism ." </P>

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