Vaivasvata
deity figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Yama · Death · Mṛtyu · Yama Vaivasvata · god of death
spoken of as
2 expressionsYama“Vaivasvata”4 mentions
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Rigveda (Sanskrit)
taking the cord that binds my braid, I will quickly hang myself with it and go to Yama's abode.
Death“Yama/Vaivasvata”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
"Knowing of me, the great-armed and mighty one will retrieve me by his valor even from the beyond — even from one taken by Vaivasvata himself.
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The god of death, invoked by Vālī as the fate Rāma would have met had he fought openly.
Had you fought openly against me in battle, O son of a king, today you would have met the god Vaivasvata, slain by my hand.
taking the cord that binds my braid, I will quickly hang myself with it and go to Yama's abode.
"If there were someone here today who could give me poison, I would quickly behold the god Vaivasvata, separated as I am from my husband.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
God of death and the ancestral realm, to whom the wandering mind is said to have strayed, and who is invoked among protectors from death.
Whatever of your mind has gone to Yama Vaivasvata — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].
King Soma, Varuṇa, the two Aśvins, Yama, Pūṣan — may they protect us from death.
Rigveda
Lord of the dead and king of the immortal realm the poet seeks entry to.
Where Vaivasvata (Yama) is king, where is the inner chamber of heaven, where those everflowing, swift waters are — there make me immortal — flow around for Indra, O Indu.