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yama
Part of Speech: noun
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1. 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.
Examples of usage:
- " Shin Shira Scaramanga Manousa Yama Hawa," repeated the Yellow Dwarf; " but you needn't say it all," he added hastily, seeing, I suppose, that I looked rather distressed, " Shin Shira will do; in fact, that's what I am always called. - "The Mysterious Shin Shira", George Edward Farrow.
- As Yama judges men without partiality or prejudice, and punishes the guilty, so should a king chastise, without favour, all offenders. - "Vikram-and-the-Vampire-Classic-Hindu-Tales-of-Adventure-Magic-and-Romance", Burton, Isabel, Lady.
- And when, after a long and happy life spent in bringing the world under the shadow of one umbrella, and in ruling it free from care, the warrior king Vikram entered the gloomy realms of Yama, from whom for mortals there is no escape, he left behind him a name that endured amongst men like the odour of the flower whose memory remains long after its form has mingled with the dust. - "Vikram-and-the-Vampire-Classic-Hindu-Tales-of-Adventure-Magic-and-Romance", Burton, Isabel, Lady.