Yamī

Yamī, the twin sister of Yama and, as the deified river Yamunā (Kālindī), a daughter of the Sun. Authored as ONE figure because the corpus uses 'Yamī/Yamunā' for a single person (cf. hindu_yama notes 'twin of Yami'; the Bhāī Dūj gloss 'his sister Yamī/Yamunā'). Child of Sūrya (parentId hindu_surya, father); her mother is Saraṇyū (Purāṇic Saṃjñā/Chāyā), who has no registered figure and so is named here rather than placed in parentIds. Typed demigod by the mandated descent rule (Sūrya deity 1.0 + unregistered mother 0.0, /2 = 0.5 → demigod; the drift-safe lower tier). Twin-sibling edge to the existing hindu_yama (one-way) and full-sibling edge to hindu_manu (reciprocated in-batch).

Parentage

• father: Sūrya

Domains

• rivers and fresh water
• love and grace
• fertility and the continuance of the race

Powers

• Purifies and averts the realm of death for those who bathe in her
• Pleads for the begetting of offspring to continue the human race

Epithets

• यमुनाYamunāṣṭakam; Purāṇic and Mahābhārata usage (rom. Yamunā, 'the twin river') (primary)
• कालिन्दीBhāgavata Purāṇa, daśama-skandha (rom. Kālindī, 'she of Mount Kalinda', her source) (primary)
• सूर्यतनयाYamunāṣṭakam (rom. Sūrya-tanayā, 'daughter of the Sun') (primary)
• यमस्वसृVedic/Purāṇic epithet (rom. Yama-svasṛ, 'sister of Yama') (primary)

Relations

• twin sibling: YamaHer twin brother, the god of death; the two are the twin children of Vivasvat (Sūrya) and Saraṇyū.Ṛgveda 10.10 (the Yama–Yamī dialogue); Ṛgveda 10.17.1-2 (primary)
• sibling: Vaivasvata ManuFull brother in the solar line — Vaivasvata Manu, son of Vivasvat. Reciprocated within this batch.Purāṇic solar genealogy (children of Vivasvat/Sūrya); Bhāgavata Purāṇa (primary)

Sources

• existence: Ṛgveda 10.10 (Yama–Yamī dialogue); Ṛgveda 10.17.1-2 (Saraṇyū bears the twins to Vivasvat) (primary); Bhāgavata Purāṇa; Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa; Yamunāṣṭakam (primary); Wendy Doniger, The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics, 1981), 'Yama rejects Yami' (secondary); David L. Haberman, River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India (Univ. of California Press, 2006) (secondary)