The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c22.s4.17

v1.c22.s4.17

The alternative connexion of the origin of man is from the union of the pair Yama and Yamī, an idea which is found also in the Avesta;¹ in an interesting dialogue of the tenth book of the Rigveda, Yamī is represented as having to persuade Yama that their wedlock is desirable and right against his doubts. Yama, however, is so intimately connected with the dead that further treatment of him can best be deferred to the discussion of Vedic eschatology. By a quite different order of ideas the four castes are elsewhere deemed to be derived from the body of the giant offered in sacrifice by the gods.²