Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.604
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.604
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When she heard that she was to kill living beings, she shed tears and Brahmā gathered those tears. She went to Dhenukāśrama and other places and performed tapas. At last Brahmā called her back and assured her that it was not against Dharma to kill living beings. He changed the tears he had gathered from her face into the various diseases and the god Yama as her companions. Thus the goddess Mṛtyu started her dance of destruction. (See also under the word PUNARJANMA).