Mrtyu
Mṛtyu (
.- Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology.
- Mṛtyu-māra as death in Buddhism or Māra, a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation.
- Sanskrit: यम) is the god of death and the underworld in Hinduism and Buddhism.
- Yamain Hinduism.
- Yamain Buddhism.
Etymology
The Vedic mṛtyú, along with Avestan mərəθiiu and Old Persian məršiyu comes from the Proto-Indo-Iranian word for death, *mr̥tyú-, which is ultimately derived from the Indo-European root *mer- ("to die") and thus is further related to Ancient Greek μόρος and Latin mors.
Literature
Vedas
Mrtyu is invoked in the hymns of the Rigveda:[1]
Depart, Mṛtyu, by a different path; by that which is your own, and distinct from the path of the gods; Ispeak to you who have eyes, who have ears; do no harm to our offspring, nor to our male progeny.
— Rigveda, Hymn 10.18.1
Upanishads
The
Then he became a horse (ashva), because it swelled (ashvat), and was fit for sacrifice (medhya); and this is why the horse-sacrifice is called Ashva-medha [...] Therefore the sacrificers offered up the purified horse belonging to Prajapati, (as dedicated) to all the deities. Verily the shining sun [ye tapati] is the Asvamedha, and his body is the year; Agni is the sacrificial fire (arka), and these worlds are his bodies. These two are the sacrificial fire and the Asvamedha-sacrifice, and they are again one deity, viz. Death.
—Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, Hymn 1.2.7
Padma Purana
Mrtyu fights in the war between the devas and the asuras in the legend of Jalandhara.[3]
Mahabharata
The
See also
Notes and references
- ^ www.wisdomlib.org (2021-08-27). "Rig Veda 10.18.1 [English translation]". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
- ^ implicitly, in eṣa vā aśvamedho ya eṣa tapati "verily, that Ashvamedha is that which gives out heat [tap-]"
- ^ www.wisdomlib.org (2019-09-26). "War Between Gods and Demons [Chapter 5]". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
- ^ www.wisdomlib.org (2021-08-17). "Section CXCIX [Mahabharata, English]". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
External links
- SpokenSanskrit dictionary translation of Mrtyu
