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Definition of Yama

Yama
Yama Ya"ma, n. [Skr. yama a twin.] (Hindoo Myth.) The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.

Meaning of Yama from wikipedia

- Yama (Sanskrit: यम, lit. 'twin'), also known as Kāla and Dharmarāja, is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for the dispensation of law and...
- misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. The yamas (Sanskrit: यम, romanized: yama), and their complement, the niyamas, represent a series of...
- In East Asian and Buddhist mythology, Yama (Chinese: 閻魔/閻摩; pinyin: Yánmó; Wade–Giles: Yen-mo) or King Yan-lo/Yan-lo Wang (Chinese: 閻羅王; pinyin: Yánluó...
- Yāma is the third of the six heavenly worlds of the desire realm in Buddhist cosmology. It is located between Trāyastriṃśa and Tu****a. This world is variously...
- "The Yama Yama Man" was a comical song for the Broadway show The Three Twins, published in 1908 by M. Witmark & Sons with music by Karl Hoschna and lyrics...
- Look up yama, Yama, yamá, yàmá, or यम in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yama is the Hindu deity of death, dharma, the south direction, and the underworld...
- names, such as Watanabe-san, but the Sino-****anese reading of the character yama (山, "mountain") used in Sino-****anese compounds. In Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki...
- Eboshi-yama (Nanae, Hokkaidō), 703m Eboshi-yama (Ichinoseki, Iwate), 1109m Eboshi-yama (Shiwa, Iwate), 719m Eboshi-yama (Yuzawa, Akita), 954m Eboshi-yama (Kosaka...
- अनिल अधिकारी; 30 May 1987 – 14 January 2017) better known by his stage name Yama Buddha (Nepali: यमबुद्ध) was a Nepalese rapper based in London, United Kingdom...
- saw the Yama-Uba,—the "Mountain Nurse." Legend says she catches little children and nurses them for awhile, and then devours them. The Yama-Uba did not...