YAMA The Hindu god of death, he was the terrible judge and punisher of the guilty. His was depicted as of a green colour, armed with a noose and a club, and seatedon a buffalo. Two insatiable dogs with four eyes and broad nostrils guard the road tohis realm, where they watch the souls of the dead hurry past, towards their meetingwith Yama, where Chitragupta, the Recorder, reads the offences of the soul, andYama sentences them.