It is the Lord of Died in the Hindouisme, that of the Vedas. It is described in a popular way as the judge of the dead ones who is held with the door of the hell, which weighs their good and their ill deeds, and which decides on their destiny. With death, its servants, called " divinities of Yama " take along the heart and reduce it in the kingdom from Yama . The first human being and thus the first being to die, he is the son of Vivasvat and of Saranyû, one of the girls of Tvashtri, Yama are sometimes regarded as the brother of Manu. It has many wives, the ten girls of Daksha, Dhûmornâ, a form of Shrî, Hemamâlâ, Susdhilâ, Vijayâ and especially his/her sister twins Yamî, her Shakti, which after its death becomes the goddess Yamunâ.

During the traditional period, he is sometimes regarded as the son of the sun, Sûrya, which can sometimes be destroying.

Yama belongs to the Dikpâla or guards of space. He is the guard of the south, generally considered as harmful.

In the iconography, it is generally represented with a blue face harms, a head of buffalo and two arms holding one a club in the shape of spinal column surmounted by a cranium ( danda ) and the other a running node ( paśu ). Its phallus is in erection and it overlaps naked a spitting buffalo of fire.

Réfrènements or Yama

The verb Sanskrit " yam" mean " to hold in hand, to contain, support, carry réfréner, control, put in order

First anga of the Yoga Sutras they are five observances morals:

1. Satyam " Veracity

1. Asteya " Honesty

1. Aparigraha " Detachment of the goods or satisfaction

1. Brahmacharya " Moderation or uprooting of any properly genital tendency

1. Ahimsa " Not violence

These réfrènements summarizes the means of being free and happier. The respect of the 5 yamas makes it possible the man to be in His Vérité.

Local names

Tibetan: Chos-rgyal, Gshin-rje; Thai: Phaya Yam, Yomarat; Khmer: Yom; Mongolian: Erlik Khân; Tamoul: Kurru

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