Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic . the mechanist of the gods, the fabricator of all ornaments,the chief of artists, the constructor of the self-moving chariots of * Muir, O. S. T., v. 232. 66 The Vedic Deities. the deities, by whose skill men obtain subsistence. Though notnamed as an Aditya in the Vedas, he is generally reckoned asone in the Puranas. In other places he is called a son ofBrahma. In pictures he is represented as a white man withthree eyes. In his right hand he carries a club. He wears acrown, and is adorned with a necklace and bracelets of is worshipped once, twice, t
Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic . the mechanist of the gods, the fabricator of all ornaments,the chief of artists, the constructor of the self-moving chariots of * Muir, O. S. T., v. 232. 66 The Vedic Deities. the deities, by whose skill men obtain subsistence. Though notnamed as an Aditya in the Vedas, he is generally reckoned asone in the Puranas. In other places he is called a son ofBrahma. In pictures he is represented as a white man withthree eyes. In his right hand he carries a club. He wears acrown, and is adorned with a necklace and bracelets of is worshipped once, twice, thrice, or four times each year,according to the devotion of his worshippers. Nowadays, noimages of this deity are set up ; each man worships the imple-ments of his trade, as the representatives of Visvakarma. Thecarpenter bows down to his hammer, saw, &c.; the bricklayer tohis trowel ; the peasant to his plough ; the student to his books ;the clerk to his pen. When the worship is over, the day is spentin feasting and ( 67 ) CHAPTER X. YAMA. Yama, the judge of men and king of the unseen world, was theson of Vivasvat (the Sun) and Saranya, the daughter of Tvastri;and was born before Saranya had become afraid of her glorioushusband. He was twin-brotherof Yami, and, in the opinion ofProfessor Roth, they were re-garded as the primeval pair fromwhom the human family hassprung. In another verse of theRig-Veda, they are described asthe offspring of the heavenlychoristers, the Gandharvas. Asthere were no others to perpet-uate the race, Yami entreatedYama to become her urged the fact that Tvastrihad formed them as man andwife in the womb ; and there-fore it was useless for him torefuse her request, as none canact contrary to the ordinancesof Tvastri. But Yama was firm, and resisted her overtures onthe ground that it was monstrous for those who are preachersof righteousness to act unrighteously.
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