Mrtyu


Mṛtyu, is a Sanskrit word meaning Death. Mṛtyu or Death is often personified as the demigods Mara and Yama in Dharmic religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
Vedic mṛtyú, along with Avestan mərəθiiu and Old Persian məršiyu comes from the Proto-Indo-Iranian word for death, *mr̥tyú-, which is ultimately derived from the Indo-European root *mer- and thus is further related to Latin mors.

In Hinduism

The Brhadaranyaka Upanishad has a creation myth where "Death" takes the shape of a horse, and includes an identification of the Ashvamedha horse sacrifice with the Sun: