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YADNA: See Yajna.
YADNOPAVIT: The sacred thread worn by Bráhmans.
YADNYA: See Yajna.
YAJAMÁN: A host; a person performing a sacrifice.
YAJNA: A sacrifice.
YAKSHA: A class of demi-gods, attendant on Kubera and employed in guarding his treasures.
YAKSHINI: A female Yaksha; a fairy.
YALLAMMA: Name of a goddess.
YAMA: The God of death.
YAMADUTA: A messenger of the god of death.
YAMAGHANTA: A Yog or conjunction of times, viz., a Sunday falling upon the second day of the bright or dark half of a month; a Friday falling upon the third lunar day, etc., etc.
YAMALOKA: The region of Yama.
YAMAPURI: The city of the god of death.
YANTRA: A mystical formula or diagram.
YOGA: Religious and abstract meditation.
YOGA MÁRGA: The path of meditation.
YOGA-SUTRA: Name of a work by Pátanjali containing aphorisms of the science of Yoga.
YOGAVÁSHISTHA: Name of a work on philosophy.
YOJAN: A measure of distance equal to eight miles.
YUDHISHTHIR: An epithet of Dharma, the eldest of the Pándava brothers.