Who is God of death - Yama or Shiva ?
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2Yama is the devata of death. Shiva is the Lord of the lord of death. Eg. During the Markandeya episode when Yama came to take Markandeya away, Lord Shiva stopped Yama from doing so. Shiva is the lord who with his untidy locks of hair dances at the end of time to destroy the universe, while laughing and fire emerging from his eyes. Namah Shivaya– AdiyarkkuCommented Dec 26, 2022 at 3:14
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opinion question. according to different texts, they both are.– Swami VishwanandaCommented Dec 27, 2022 at 11:01
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3@SwamiVishwananda - whole of Hinduism is opinions then. It is silly to mark every question as opinion based except what you consider common to all darshans. river - death itself is comprised of 3 - kala, mrityu and yama. kala devata tells it's time for atma to die. mrityu devata physically takes prana out of body e.g. through disease, or accident, or snake bite etc. yama judges whether that atma is good or bad after he dies. Shiva is destroyer of all worlds, he doesn't usually deal with day to day stuff like death.– ramCommented Dec 28, 2022 at 0:55
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@Adiyarkku sir which scripture discusses the Markandeya-Shiva incident? Is it a sthala purana? Could you name it please?– LSSJ BrolyCommented Dec 28, 2022 at 4:22
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It's Sam(Bho) with his promotion, So Bow please : - )– Gopal AnantharamanCommented Aug 11, 2023 at 18:09
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Shiva is supreme soul Paramatma, he never come into cycle of death or birth, so he is ever pure. ocian of love and ocian of knowledge ( thrimurthi thrikala darshi) Shiva is not god of death, when shanker become equal to shiva he plays the role of destruction of the dharma of ravan raj the death hear is death from body consciousness of worldly life but he is the giver of life
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