Yama Iconography. He is often identified with Dharma the personification of Dharma though they have different origins and mythologies. Yama Regent of the South Yama the Binder is the god of death the sovereign of the infernal regions.
From Lalitadityas Kashmir to the southernmost realms of the Pandyas from the westernmost frontiers of ancient Bharat once controlled by the Pratiharas to the easternmost ruled by the Palas. I took this one step further and turned the pigment of his skin into swirly dark shades of blue with lightning crackling underneath his skin. Yama is an ancient Vedic deity.
In Tibet Yama is usually Dam Can Chos rGyal The Pledge Bound Dharma-King.
Holding the conch discus mace and lotus. In Tantric Buddhism Yama is a fierce deity. Tibetan iconography and the Tibetan Book of the Dead Bardo Thodol portray Yama who appears at death as standing in a halo of flames adorned with human skulls and heads holding in his left hand the mirror of karma which reflects the good and bad deeds of the deceased and in his right hand the. Iconography of the Vedic Deities Almost all the original High Gods of the Rig Veda have been demoted in modern Hinduism to Loka- pālas guardian deities of the directions.
