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Daṇḍadhara

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Daṇḍadhara. The title of the Hindu god Yama as judge of the dead.

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