Yāmyā (City)
Yāmyā, “the city of Yama”
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Yāmyā is one of the cities of the devas (deva-nagaras) named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa. Sumantu Muni, describing the greatness of Vyoma to King Śatānīka, names the six varsha-parvatas, Himavat, Hemakūṭa, Nishadha, Nīla, Śveta and Śṛṅgavat, with the great silver mountain Mahārajata in their midst. Above these, he says, are the deva-nagaras: Māhendrī, Āgneyī, Yāmyā, Nairṛtī, Vāruṇī, Vāyavyā and Īśānī. Yāmyā is the third of them.
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 126