the man whose death is generally mourned

yáma

a driver, charioteer ib. VIII, 103, to ;
the act of checking orﾠ curbing, suppression, restraint (with vācām, restraint of words, silence) BhP. ;
self-control forbearance, any great moral rule orﾠ duty (as opp. to niyama, a minor observance;
in Yājñ. III, 313 ten Yamas are mentioned, sometimes only five) Mn. MBh. etc.;
(in Yoga) self-restraint (as the first of the eight Aṇgas orﾠ means of attaining mental concentration) IW. 93 ;
any rule orﾠ observance PārGṛ. ;
( yamá) mf (ā́ orﾠ ī́)n. twin-born, twin, forming a pair RV. etc. etc.;
m. a twin, one of a pair orﾠ couple, a fellow (du. « the twins»
N. of the Aṡvins andﾠ of their twin children by Mādrī, called Nakula andﾠ Saha-deva;
yamaumithunau, twins of different sex) ib. ;
a symbolical N. for the number « two» Hcat. ;
N. of the god who presides over the Pitṛis (q.v.) andﾠ rules the spirits of the dead
RV. etc.. etc.. IW. 18; 197, 198 etc.. RTL. 10; 16; 289 etc.. ;
(he is regarded as the first of men andﾠ born from Vivasvat, « the Sun», andﾠ his wife Saraṇyū;
while his brother, the seventh Manu, another form of the first man, is the son of Vivasvat andﾠ Saṃjñā, the image of Saraṇyū;
his twin-sister is Yamī, with whom he resists sexual alliance, but by whom he is mourned after his death, so that the gods, to make her forget her sorrow, create night;
in the Veda he is called a king orﾠ saṉgamanojanānām, « the gatherer of men», andﾠ rules over the departed fathers in heaven, the road to which is guarded by two broad-nosed, four-eyed, spotted dogs, the children of Ṡaramā q.v.;
in Post-vedic mythology he is the appointed Judge andﾠ « Restrainer» orﾠ « Punisher» of the dead, in which capacity he is alsoﾠ called dharmarāja orﾠ dharma andﾠ corresponds to the Greek Pluto andﾠ to Minos;
his abode is in some region of the lower world called Yama-pura;
thither a soul when it leaves the body, is said to repair, andﾠ there, after the recorder, Citra-gupta, has read an account of its actions kept in a book called Agra-saṃdhānā, it receives a just sentence;
in MBh. Yama is described as dressed in blood-red garments, with a glittering form, a crown on his head, glowing eyes andﾠ like Varuṇa, holding a noose, with which he binds the spirit after drawing it from the body, in size about the measure of a man's thumb;
he is otherwise represented as grim in aspect, green in colour, clothed in red, riding on a buffalo, andﾠ holding a club in one hind andﾠ noose in the other;
in the later mythology he is always represented as a terrible deity inflicting tortures, called yātanā, on departed spirits;
he is alsoﾠ one of the 8 guardians of the world as regent of the South quarter;
he is the regent of the Nakshatra Apa-bharanī orﾠ Bharaṇī, the supposed author of RV. X, 10; 14,
of a hymn to Vishṇu andﾠ of a law-book;
yamasyâ̱rkaḥ N. of a Sāman. ĀrshBr.);
N. of the planet Saturn (regarded as the son of Vivasvat andﾠ Chāyā) Hariv. BhP. ;
of one of Skanda's attendants (mentioned together with Ati-yama) MBh. ;
a crow L. (cf. - dūtaka);
a bad horse (whose limbs are either too small orﾠ too large) L. ;
(ī́) f. N. of Yama's twin-sister (who is identified in Postvedic mythology with the river-goddess Yamunā) RV. etc. etc.;
n. a pair, brace, couple L. ;
(in gram.) a twin-letter (the consonant interposed andﾠ generally understood, but not written in practice, between a nasal immediately preceded by one of the four other consonants in each class) Prāt. Pat. on Pāṇ. 1-1, 8 ;
pitch of the voice, tone of utterance, key Prāt. ;
- यमकालिन्दी
- यमकिंकर
- यमकीट
- यमकील
- यमकेतु
- यमकोटि
- यमकोटी
- यमक्षय
- यमगाथा
- यमगीता
- यमगृह
- यमघण्ट
- यमघ्न
- यमज
- यमजात
- यमजातक
- यमजित्
- यमजिह्वा
- यमतर्पण
- यमता
- यमतीर्थ
- यमत्व
- यमदंष्ट्र
- यमदण्ड
- यमदिश्
- यमदूत
- यमदूतक
- यमदेवत
- यमदेवत्य
- यमदैवत
- यमद्रुम
- यमद्वितीया
- यमद्वीप
- यमधर्मनिर्भयस्तोत्र
- यमधानी
- यमधार
- यमनक्षत्र
- यमनगरातिथि
- यमनेत्र
- यमपट
- यमपटिक
- यमपद
- यमपालक
- यमपालपुरुष
- यमपाश
- यमपुर
- यमपुराण
- यमपुरुष
- यमप्रस्थपुर
- यमप्रिय
- यमभगिनी
- यमभट
- यममन्दिर
- यममार्ग
- यमयज्ञ
- यमयाग
- यमयातना
- यमरथ
- यमराज्
- यमराज
- यमराजन्
- यमराज्य
- यमराष्ट्र
- यमर्क्ष
- यमलोक
- यमवत्
- यमवत्सा
- यमवाहन
- यमविषय
- यमव्रत
- यमशान्ति
- यमशिख
- यमश्राय
- यमश्रेष्ठ
- यमश्व
- यमसंहिता
- यमसत्त्ववत्
- यमसदन
- यमसभ
- यमसभा
- यमसभीय
- यमसात्
- यमसादन
- यमसू
- यमसूक्त
- यमसूर्य
- यमस्तोत्र
- यमस्तोम
- यमस्मृति
- यमस्वसृ
- यमहार्दिका
- यमहासेश्वरतीर्थ