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Chitragupta

चित्रगुप्त citragupta

The celestial scribe who records every being's deeds for the court of Yama; the Kashi Khanda holds that within Kashi his ledger is suspended and Kalabhairava keeps the account instead.

Where this term appears

  • The magistrate of death Treatise

    …he ordinary running of the cosmos, every soul's deeds are recorded by Chitragupta , the meticulous celestial clerk who keeps the ledger for Yama, the god of death, so that each may be judged exactly on the acco…

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