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Yama facts for kids

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Yama is the god of death in Hinduism.

In Japan he is called "Enma" and "Great King Enma".

Images for kids

  • Guardians of the eight directions 04

    Sculpture of the dikpala Yama.

  • Yama on buffalo

    Yamaraj depicted riding a buffalo and surrounded by attendants.

  • Yama's Court and Hell

    Yama's Court and Hell. The Blue figure is Yama with his twin sister Yami and Chitragupta. A 17th-century painting from the Government Museum in Chennai

  • Enma

    Azuchi-Momoyama period wall-scroll depicting Enma

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