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Yama
Hindu god of death

Yama

Yama, also known as Kāla and Dharmarāja, is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for the dispensation of law and punishment of sinners in his abode, Naraka.

He is often identified with Dharmadeva, the personification of Dharma, though the two deities have different origins and myths.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Gleb Korovko (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.