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Mrtyu (from Vedic Sanskrit: मृत्यु IAST:' ; ''Latin cognate mortis''), is a Sanskrit word meaning Death. Mrtyu or Death is often personified as the demigods ''Mara'' (मर) and ''Yama'' (यम) in Dharmic religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. * Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology. *Mrtyu-mara as death in Buddhism or Mara, a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation. *Yama ((サンスクリット:यम)) is the lord of death in Hinduism and Buddhism. * *Yama in Hinduism. * *Yama in Buddhism. The Brhadaranyaka Upanishad (a mystical appendix to the Shatapatha Brahmana and likely the oldest of the Upanishads) has a creation myth where ' "Death" takes the shape of a horse, and includes an identification of the Ashvamedha horse sacrifice with the Sun:〔implicitly, in ' "verily, that Ashvamedha is that which gives out heat ()"〕 :Then he became a horse (''ashva''), because it swelled (''ashvat''), and was fit for sacrifice (''medhya''); and this is why the horse-sacrifice is called Ashva-medha () Therefore the sacrificers offered up the purified horse belonging to Prajapati, (as dedicated) to all the deities. Verily the shining sun (tapati'' ) is the Asvamedha, and his body is the year; Agni is the sacrificial fire (''arka''), and these worlds are his bodies. These two are the sacrificial fire and the Asvamedha-sacrifice, and they are again one deity, viz. Death. (BrUp 1.2.7. trans. Müller) ==See also== *God of death 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mrtyu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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