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mṛtyu

mṛtyú m. (very rarely f.) death, dying, [RV.] &c., &c.

(deaths of different kinds are enumerated, 100 from disease or accident and one natural from old age; ifc. = ‘death caused by or through’)

Death personified, the god of death (sometimes identified with Yama or with Viṣṇu; or said to be a son of Adharma by Nirṛti or of Brahmā or of Kali or of Māyā; he has also the patronymics Prādhvaṃsana and Sāmparāyaṇa, and is sometimes reckoned among the 11 Rudras, and sometimes regarded as Vyāsa in the 6th Dvāpara or as a teacher &c.), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Pur.] &c.

N. of the god of love, [L.]

of a partic. Ekāha, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]

of the 8th astrol. house, [VarBṛS.]

of the 17th astrol. Yoga, [Col.] (mṛtyor haraḥ and mrityor vikarṇa-bhāse N. of Sāmans).

&c. See p. 827, col. 3.