Vishvakarma fashioned the Trishula from the blazing fragments shaved from Surya's body, forging Shiva's three-pronged weapon alongside the other divine arms of the gods.
Shiva impaled the demon Andhaka upon the Trishula and held him aloft, the three prongs piercing the asura's body until all his evil burned away and he was transformed into Bhringi, a devoted attendant of Shiva.
Shiva wields the Trishula as his foremost weapon, the trident's three prongs embodying creation, preservation, and destruction — the three cosmic functions that define the Mahadeva.
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