00:00Death stands at your door to claim a life.
00:02Would you dare make him wait?
00:04One sister did, using only oil, red powder and velvet flowers.
00:08The Padma Purana tells of Yamuna, river goddess, waiting for her twin brother.
00:12Her brother was Yama, god of death, bound to harvesting mortal souls.
00:17Year after year she invited him, but his dark ledger stayed full.
00:20So Yamuna prepared a feast that cosmic law could not refuse.
00:24Holding death himself with a ring of oil, look at her courage.
00:27When Yama crossed her doorway, she poured a circle of oil around him.
00:31She marked his forehead with tikka and garlanded him with purple blossoms.
00:35Yama reached for his noose, but Yamuna smiled, you cannot leave until flowers win.
00:40But velvet makhamali flowers never wither.
00:42Realizing her love, death, death.
00:45Yama declared, no brother blessed by his sister today, shall die before his time.
00:49He ate her feast, blessed her water and promised to return every year.
00:53A circle of oil stopped death.
00:55The bonds you guard, will shelter you.
00:57Today during Tehar, sisters still draw the oil ring for their brothers.
01:01Follow for tomorrow's story from the Puranas.
