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apamrityu

अपमृत्यु apamṛtyu

Untimely, violent or accidental death, death before its season; the Mahamrityunjaya is chanted for protection from it.

Where this term appears

  • The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship

    …nings together: by Rudra's grace, he writes, may I be freed both from apamrityu , untimely and violent death, and from the death that is samsara itself, the endless dying and being reborn.

  • A city made of gods Treatise

    Mrityunjaya guards against the bad one, the apamrityu , the untimely, violent, unripe death that snatches a person before their work is done.

  • The debt to the dead Treatise

    …cident, by their own hand, by the untimely deaths the tradition calls apamrityu , or whose funeral rites were never properly done, souls stranded in the condition of the ghost and unable to move on.

  • The good death Treatise

    …lost: the difference between a good death and a bad one. A bad death, apamrityu , is the untimely one.

  • The saw of liberation Treatise

    …eir own hand, by violence, by the untimely deaths the tradition calls apamrityu , are held to become the very pretas that ordinary suicide was said to produce, souls stranded on the near side of the crossing, u…

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