Mrtyu

Mṛtyu, is a Sanskrit word meaning death. Mṛtyu, or Death, is often personified as the deities Mara and Yama in Dharmic religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

Mara, the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology.
Mṛtyu-māra as death in Buddhism or Māra, a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation.
Yama is the god of death and the underworld in Hinduism and Buddhism.
*Yama in Hinduism.
*Yama in Buddhism.
Etymology

The Vedic mṛtyú, along with Avestan mərəθiiu and Old Persian məršiyu comes from the Proto-Indo-Iranian word for death, *mr̥tyú-, which is ultimately derived from the Indo-European root *mer- and thus is further related to Ancient Greek μόρος and Latin mors.

Literature

Vedas

Mrtyu is invoked in the hymns of the Rigveda:

Upanishads

The Brhadaranyaka Upanishad has a creation myth where "Death" takes the shape of a horse, and includes an identification of the Ashvamedha horse sacrifice with the Sun:

Padma Purana

Mrtyu fights in the war between the devas and the asuras in the legend of Jalandhara.

Mahabharata

The Mahabharata references a legend regarding a dispute between Time, Mrityu, Yama, Ikshvaku, and a Brahmana. Mrityu is female in this legend.