Mṛtyu
deity figure · 2 works · 16 mentions · 27 anchored passages
Death · he who is Death
spoken of as
1 expressionDeath“Mṛtyu”11 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
When the three fair-winged ones, mighty, came together threefold, converging upon the single syllable, they thrust back Death with immortality, concealing within themselves all the worlds.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Personified Death, saluted alongside Yama and the Pitṛs.
Homage to Yama, homage be to Mṛtyu, homage to the Pitṛs and to those who lead [the dead].
Fall upon this one, O Mṛtyu — let not the great-bellied one be released from you.
do not come under the sway of Death.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Death personified, named as the father of the warriors Sumukha and Vimukha.
And those two who stand at their sides, resembling mountains — they are Sumukha and Vimukha, sons of Mṛtyu, equal to their father in power.
Death, noose and club in hand — by whom all three worlds, moving and unmoving, are brought to their end — stood before him.
"Release me rightly, O knower of dharma, until I slay him — for no one I have set eyes upon lives even for a moment.