Mrityunjaya
मृत्युंजय mṛtyuñjaya'Conqueror of death', an epithet of Shiva; also the name of the Vedic Mahamrityunjaya mantra (Rigveda 7.59.12), recited for healing and protection against untimely death.
Where this term appears
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
…s Shiva that Tryambaka earned the mantra its great name, for Shiva is Mrityunjaya , the conqueror of death, and the tradition tells more than one story of how he came to hold that title.
- A city made of gods Treatise
There is Mrityunjaya Mahadev , Shiva as the Conqueror of Death, and his shrine is the exact theological twin of the burning ground we are walking toward.
- The good death Treatise
… whole tradition recoils from it, and we have already met the shrine, Mrityunjaya Mahadev, the Conqueror of Death, whose entire office is to guard against exactly this, to keep the unripe death from the door.
- The Six Amnayas Treatise
… his five forms ( Skanda , Kumara , Guha , Subrahmanya , Brahmanya ); Mrityunjaya ; Tryambaka ; and Pratyangira in her five forms ( Brahmi , Narayani , Raudri , Ugra Kritya , Atharvana Bhadrakali ).
- Varanasi, the one city you go to die Treatise
And yet he is worshipped, in the very same breath and often in the very same hymn, as Mrityunjaya , the Conqueror of Death.