यभ् यमक

यम

यम a. [यम्-घञ्]
1 Twin, twinborn.
2 Coupled.
−मः
1 Restraining, controlling, curbing.
2 Control, restraint.
3 Self-control.
4 Any great moral or religious duty or observance (opp. नियम); तप्तं यमेन नियमेन तपोऽमुनैव N. 13. 16. (यम and नियम are thus distinguished:−शरीर- साधनापेक्षं नित्यं यत्कर्म तद्यमः । नियमस्तु स यत्कर्म नित्यमागतुंसाधनं ॥ Ak.; see Malli. on Śi. 13. 23 and Ki. 10. 10 also. The yamas are usually said to be ten, but their names are given differently by different writers; e. g. ब्रह्मचर्यं दया क्षांतिर्दानं सत्यमकल्कता । अहिंसाऽस्तेयमाधुर्ये दमश्चेति यमाः स्मृताः ॥ Y. 3. 313; or आनृशंस्यं दया सत्यमहिंसा क्षांतिरार्जवम् । प्रीतिः प्रसादो माधुर्यं मार्दवं च यमा दश ॥; sometimes only five yamas are mentioned:
−अहिंसा सत्यवचनं ब्रह्मचयर्मकल्कता । अस्तेयमिति पं- चैते यमाख्यानि व्रतानि च ॥).
5 The first of the eight angas or means of attaining Yoga; the eight angas are: −यमनियमासनप्राणायामप्रत्याहारधारणा- ध्यानसमाधयोऽष्टावंगानि.
6 The god of death, death personified, regarded as a son of the sun; दत्ताभये त्वयि य- मादपि दंडधारे U. 2. 11.
7 A twin; धर्मात्मजं प्रति यमौ च (i. e. नकुलसहदे- वौ) कथैव नास्ति Ve. 2. 25; यमयोश्चैव गर्भेषु जन्मतो ज्येष्ठता मता Ms. 9. 126.
8 One of a pair or couple, a fellow.
9 N. of Saturn.
10 A crow.
11 A symbolical expression for the number ‘two’.
12 Ved. A rein, bridle.
13 Ved. A driver, charioteer.
−मं
1 A pair or couple.
2 (In gram.) The twin letter of any consonant.
3 Pitch of the voice.
−मी N. of the river Yamunā.
−Comp.
−अ- नुगः, −अनुचरः a servant or attendant of Yama.
−अंतकः an epithet of 1. Śiva. −2. of Yama. −अरिः, −घ्नः,
−रिपुः &c. N. of Viṣṇu.
−ईशं the Nakṣatra Bharaṇī.
−किंकरः a messenger of death.
−कीटः 1. a wood-louse. −2. an earth-worm.
−कीलः N. of Viṣṇu. −कोटिः −टी N. of a mythical town to the east of Laṅkā.
−ज a. twin-born, twin; भ्रातरौ आवां यमजौ U. 6; 4.
−दंष्ट्रा ‘Yama's tooth’, the jaws of death. (
−ष्ट्राः pl.) the last eight days of the month Asvina and the whole of Kārtika (regarded as a period of general sickness). −दूतः −दूतकः 1. a messenger of death. −2. a crow.
−दूतिका tamarind.
−देवता the asterism Bharaṇī.
−द्वितीया the second day in the bright half of Kārtika when sisters entertain their brothers (Mar. भाऊबीज); cf. भ्रातृद्वितीया.
−धानी the abode of Yama; नरः सं- सारांते विशति यमधानीजवनिकां Bh. 3. 112.
−धारः a kind of double-edged weapon.
−पाशः the noose of Yama.
−पुरुषः Yama's servant or minister.
−प्रियः the fig-tree.
−भगिनी N. of the river Yamunā.
−यातना the tortures inflicted by Yama upon sinners after death, (the word is sometimes used to denote ‘horrible tortures’, ‘extreme pain’).
−राज m. Yama, the god of death. −वाहनः,
−रथः a buffalo.
−सभा the tribunal of Yama.
−सूर्यं a building with two halls, one facing the west and the other facing the north.
−स्वसृ f. 1. N. of the river Yamunā. −2. N. of Durgā.

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