Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purānic . ped once,twice, thrice, or four times each year, according to thedevotion of his worshippers. Nowadays, no images ofhim are set up; each man worships the implements ofhis trade as representatives. The carpenter bowsdown to his hammer, saw, etc., the bricklayer to histrowel ; the peasant to his plough ; the student to hisbooks ; the clerk to his pen. When the worship isover, the day is spent in feasting and enjoyment. Though, as we have seen in the Vedas, he is regardedin some hymns as the Creator and the Preserver, inthe later books he occupies a much lower
Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purānic . ped once,twice, thrice, or four times each year, according to thedevotion of his worshippers. Nowadays, no images ofhim are set up; each man worships the implements ofhis trade as representatives. The carpenter bowsdown to his hammer, saw, etc., the bricklayer to histrowel ; the peasant to his plough ; the student to hisbooks ; the clerk to his pen. When the worship isover, the day is spent in feasting and enjoyment. Though, as we have seen in the Vedas, he is regardedin some hymns as the Creator and the Preserver, inthe later books he occupies a much lower is styled the Creator, and Vishnu the Preserver—whilst Visvakarma becomes a valued servant whofulfils the behests of his superiors. It is for skill andpower to work in their ordinary avocations that hisaid is now sought. * Muir, O. S. T., v. 232. CHAPTER X. YAMA. Yam A, the judge of men and king of the unseen world,was the son of Vivasvat (the sun) and Saranya, thedaughter of Tvastri. He was born before his mother. had become afraid of her glorious husband. He wastwin-brother of Yami, and, in the opinion of ProfessorRoth, they were regarded as the primeval pair fromwhom the human family has sprung. In anotherverse of the Rig-Veda they are described as the 78 YAMA. 79 offspring of the heavenly choristers, the \s there were no others to perpetuate the race, Yamientreated Yama to become her husband. She urgedthe fact that Tvastri had formed them as man and wifein the womb; and therefore it was useless for him torefuse her request, as none can act contrary to the ordi-nances of Tvastri. But Yama was firm, and resistedher overtures on the ground that it was monstrous forthose who are preachers of righteousness to act un-righteously.* It is not at all easy to determine whatwas intended to be represented by these deities. Max-Miiller understands Vivasvat to be the sky, Saranyathe dawn, Yama the day, and Yami the night. Otherssuggest that Yama may be the
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