apamrityu
अपमृत्यु apamṛtyuUntimely, 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…