Yama
Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 04 Jul 2011 11:30 and updated at 04 Jul 2011 11:30
ATHARVAVEDA NOUN
avs.1.14 | [0101402] King Yama, let this maiden be surrendered as a wife to thee: Bound let her be meanwhile within, her mother s, brother s, father s house. |
avs.2.12 | With Agni as thine envoy, go, prepared, to Yama s dwelling place. |
avs.3.10 | With Yama may it be a cow to pour forth milk. |
avs.3.29 | [0302901] When yonder kings who sit beside Yama divide among them selves the sixteenth part of hopes fulfilled, A ram bestowed as sacrifice, white footed, frees us from the tax. |
avs.4.34 | He goes unto the Gods, he dwells with Yama, he joys among Gandharvas meet for Soma. |
avs.4.34 | [0403404] Yama robs not of generative vigour the men who dress oblation called Vishtari. |
avs.4.40 | May they, turned back, be pained for harming Yama. |
avs.5.5 | Thou hast been sprinkled by the mouth of Yama s tawny coloured horse. |
avs.5.24 | [0502414] May Yama, Regent of the Fathers, save me. |
avs.5.30 | [050306] O man, stay here among us; stay with all thy spirit: follow not Yama s two messengers. |
avs.5.30 | [0503012] Homage be paid to Yama, to Mrityu, and to the Fathers, and to those who guide us! I honour first, for this man s preservation, that Agni who well knoweth how to save him. |
avs.6.28 | [0602803] Be reverence paid to him who, while exploring the path for many, first approached the river, Lord of this world of quadrupeds and bipeds; to him be rever ence paid, to Death, to Yama! |
avs.6.29 | [0602903] Oft may it fly to us to save our heroes from slaughter, oft perch here to bring fair offspring, Turn thee and send thy voice afar: cry to the region far away; That I may see thee in the home of Yama reft of all thy power, that I may see thee impotent. |
avs.6.32 | [0603202] Let Rudra break your necks, O ye Pisachas, and split your ribs asunder, Yatudhanas! Your herb of universal power with Yama hath allied itself. |
avs.6.46 | Thy name is Araru: thy sire is Yama; Varunani bare thee. |
avs.6.46 | [0604602] We know thy birth, O Sleep, thou art son of the sisters of the Gods; the minister of Yama thou, thou art Antaka, thou art Death. |
avs.6.63 | To me, in truth, again doth Yama give thee. |
avs.6.63 | To him, to Yama, yea, to Death, be homage! |
avs.6.63 | Unanimous with Yama and the Fathers, make this man rise and reach the loftiest heaven. |
avs.6.84 | To me doth Yama verily restore thee. |
avs.6.84 | To him, to Yama, yea, to Death be worship! |
avs.6.84 | In full accord with Yama and the Fathers, send this man up ward to the loftiest heaven. |
avs.6.93 | [0609301] Yama, Death direly fatal, the Destroyer, with his black crest, Sarva the tawny archer, And all the Gods uprisen with their army, may these on every side avoid our heroes. |
avs.6.96 | [0609602] Let them release me from the curse and from the noose of Varuna, Free me from Yama s fetter, and from every sin against the Gods! |
avs.6.110 | [0611002] Neath Jyaishthaghni and Yama s Two Releasers this child was born: preserve him from uprooting. |
avs.6.117 | [0611701] That which I eat, a debt which still is owing, the tribute due to Yama, which supports me, [p. a255] Thereby may I be free from debt, O Agni. |
avs.6.118 | Not urging us to pay the debt we owed him, he with a cord hath gone to Yama s kingdom. |
avs.6.133 | [0613303] As I am now Death s Brahmachari claiming out of the living world a man for Yama, So with Austerity and Prayer and Fervour I bind this Girdle round the man before me. |
avs.7.22 | To Savitar, or Yama invested with Savitar s attributes |
avs.7.53 | [0705301] As thou, Brihaspati, from the curse hast saved us, from dwel ling yonder in the realm of Yama, The Asvins, leeches of the Gods, O Agni, have chased Death far from us with mighty powers. |
avs.7.112 | [0711202] Release me from the curse s bond and plague that comes from Varuna; Free me from Yama s fetter and from every sin against the Gods. |
avs.8.1 | [0800109] Let not the black dog and the brindled seize thee, two warders of the way sent forth by Yama. |
avs.8.2 | All Yama s messengers who roam around, sent by Vaivasvata, I chase away. |
avs.8.7 | [0800728] From the Five arrowed, from the Ten arrowed have I delivered thee, Freed thee from Yama s fetter and from all offence against the Gods, |
avs.8.8 | [0800811] Bear them away, Death s messengers! envoys of Yama! bind them fast. |
avs.8.9 | [0800923] To Indra eight, to Yama six, seven to the Rishis, seven to each: The number five accompanies waters and men and healing herbs. |
avs.8.10 | King Yama was her calf, her pail was silvern. |
avs.9.7 | [0900701] Prajapati and Parameshthin are the two horns, Indra is the head, Agni the forehead, Yama the joint of the neck. |
avs.9.7 | [0900720] Standing east wards he is Indra, standing southwards, Yama. |
avs.9.10 | That which is One bards call by many a title: they call It Agni, Yama, Matariswan. |
avs.11.6 | [1100611] Or the Seven Rishis we address, Waters divine, Prajapati, Fathers with Yama at their head: may they deliver us from woe. |
avs.12.2 | I made this Indra s fuel, and the Fire of Yama I removed. |
avs.12.3 | Go thither: summon those whom thou lovest, one and all, to meet thee, Strong as ye were when first ye met each other, still be your strength the same in Yama s kingdom. |
avs.12.3 | [1200303] Together in this world, in God ward pathway, together be ye in the realms of Yama. |
avs.12.3 | Herein, accordant with the Fathers, Yama shall mightily protect your cooked oblation. |
avs.12.3 | [1200356] To the southern region, to Indra the Regent, to Tiraschiraji the Protector, to Yama the Archer, we present, etc. |
avs.12.4 | [1200436] In Yama s realm the Cow fulfils each wish for him who gave her up; But hell, they say, is for the man who, when they beg, bestow her not. |
avs.12.5 | [1200564] That he may go from Yama s home afar into the worlds of sin. |
avs.14.2 | Let not this dust that sullies reach the Waters, nor Yama, Agni, nor the host of Fathers. |
avs.15.14 | [1501407] He, when he went away to the Fathers, went away having be come King Yama and having made the exclamation Svadha an eater of food. |
avs.16.4 | [1600404] Let Surya protect me from Day, Agni from Earth, Vayu from Firmament, Yama from men, Sarasvati from dwellers on the earth. |
avs.16.5 | Thou art the son of Grahi, the minister of Yama. |
avs.16.5 | Thou art the son of Destruction, the minister of Yama, etc. (as in verse 1). [p. 166] |
avs.16.5 | Thou art the son of the sisters of the Gods, the minister of Yama. |
avs.18.1 | [1800108] Yami am possessed by love of Yama, that I may rest on the same couch beside him. |
avs.18.1 | On Yami be the unbrotherly act of Yama. |
avs.18.1 | [1800115] Alas; thou art indeed a weakling Yama. |
avs.18.1 | Guard ceaselessly, great Agni, him who ponders Yama s name easy to be comprehended. |
avs.18.1 | [1800147] Matali prospers there with Kavyas, Yama with Angiras sons, Brihaspati with singers. |
avs.18.1 | [1800149] Honour the King with your oblations, Yama, Vivasvan s son, who gathers men together. [p. 179] Even him who travelled over the mighty rivers, who searches out and shows the path to many. |
avs.18.1 | [1800150] Yama first found for us the road to travel: this pasture never can be taken from us. |
avs.18.1 | But Yama s mother, spouse of great Vivasvan, vanished as she was carried to her dwelling. |
avs.18.1 | Then shalt thou look on both the Kings enjoying their sacred food, God Varuna and Yama. |
avs.18.1 | Yama bestow upon this man a dwelling adorned with days and beams of light and waters. |
avs.18.1 | [1800159] Come, Yama, with Angirases, the holy; rejoice thee here with children of Virupa. |
avs.18.1 | O Yama, accordant with Angirases and Fathers. |
avs.18.2 | [1800201] For Yama Soma juice flows clear, to Yama is oblation paid. |
avs.18.2 | To Yama sacrifice prepared, and heralded by Agni, goes. |
avs.18.2 | [1800202] Offer to Yama sacrifice most sweet in savour and draw near. |
avs.18.2 | [1800203] Offer to Yama, to the King, butter and milk in sacrifice. |
avs.18.2 | The Gayatri, the Trishtup, all metres in Yama are contained. |
avs.18.2 | Draw nigh thou to the gracious minded Fathers who take their pleasure in the feast with Yama. |
avs.18.2 | [1800212] And those two dogs of thine, Yama, the watchers, four eyed who look on men and guard the pathway Entrust this man, O King, to their protection, and with prosperity and health endow him. |
avs.18.2 | [1800213] Dark hued, insatiate, with distended nostrils, Yama s two envoys roam among the people. |
avs.18.2 | [1800215] Let him, O Yama, go to those Rishis austere, of Fervour born, First followers of Law, the sons of Law, upholders of the Law. |
avs.18.2 | [1800218] Let him, O Yama, go to those Rishis austere, of Fervour born, Skilled in a thousand ways and means, the sages who protect the Sun. |
avs.18.2 | Unite thee with the Fathers and with Yama: strong and delicious be the winds that fan thee. |
avs.18.2 | Among the Fathers find thy home, and thrive mid those whom Yama rules. |
avs.18.2 | Yama s observant messenger was Mrityu he hath despatched men s lives unto the Fathers. |
avs.18.2 | [1800232] Yama is higher and Vivasvan lower: nothing whatever do I see above him. |
avs.18.2 | This sacrifice of mine is based on Yama, Vivasvan spread the atmosphere about us. |
avs.18.2 | [1800237] I give this place to him who hath come hither and now is mine, to be a home to rest in: This was the thought of Yama when he answered: This man is. |
avs.18.2 | [1800246] Inbreath and outbreath, breath diffused, life, sight to look upon the Sun Seek by a straight unwinding path the Fathers whom King Yama rules, |
avs.18.2 | Hasten with them to Yama s home and join his gathered. |
avs.18.3 | [1800313] Worship with sacrificial gift King Yama, Vivasvan s son who gathers men together, Yama who was the first to die of mortals, the first who travelled to the world before us. |
avs.18.3 | [1800341] Chose he then, death for Gods to be their portion? Why chose he not for men a life eternal? Brihaspati span sacrifice, the Rishi; and Yama yielded up his own dear body. |
avs.18.3 | [1800346] Our Father s Fathers and their sires before them who came, most noble, to the Soma banquet, With these let Yama, yearning with the yearning, rejoicing eat our offerings at his pleasure. |
avs.18.3 | The Fathers firmly fix this pillar here for thee; and there let Yama make thee an abiding place. |
avs.18.3 | [1800358] Meet Yama, meet the Fathers, meet the merit of virtuous action in the loftiest heaven. [p. 197] Leave sin and evil, seek anew thy dwelling: so bright with glory let him join his body. |
avs.18.3 | [1800362] In immortality Vivasvan set us! Go from us Death, come to us life eternal! To good old age may he protect these people: let not their spirits pass away to Yama. |
avs.18.3 | To lengthened life shall be, this Yama, lead us. |
avs.18.3 | [1800366] They gaze on thee with longing in their spirit, as on an eagle that is mounting skyward; On thee with wings of gold, Varuna s envoy, the Bird that hasteth to the home of Yama. |
avs.18.3 | [1800369] Grains which for thee I scatter, mixt with Sesamum, as holy food, May they for thee be excellent and potent: King Yama look on them as thine with favour! |
avs.18.3 | That he may dwell in Yama s home addressing the assemblies there. |
avs.18.4 | King Yama look on, them as thine with favour! |
avs.18.4 | [1800431] On thee doth Savitar the God bestow this vesture for thy wear. [p. 204] Clothe thee herein, and find meet robe in Yama s realm to cover thee. |
avs.18.4 | He in the realm of Yama lives on her the inexhaustible. |
avs.18.4 | King Yama look on, them, as thine, with favour. |
avs.18.4 | Hymn this with your oblations, Visvamitras: may he, may Yama, lengthen our existence. |
avs.18.4 | [1800455] As the Five Races of mankind for Yama set apart a house. |
avs.18.4 | [1800474] To Yama connected with the Fathers Hail! and homage! |
avs.19.20 | [1902001] May Soma, Varuna the King, both Asvins, Yama and Pushan guard us well from Mrityu Death caused by men, which Indra Agni, Dhatar, Brihaspati and Savitar appointed. |
avs.19.56 | [1905601] Thou art come hither from the world of Yama: thou, resolute, affectest men with rapture. |
avs.19.57 | [1905703] Child of Gods Consorts, minister of Yama is the good Dream: that which is my trouble we drive away to the enemy. |
avs.20.25 | Usana Kavya drove the kine hither with him: let us with offer ings honour Yama s deathless birth. |
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