Savitri said: You have controlled all the creatures by your ordinances and you carry them away not according to your caprice but those regulations. Therefore, O god, you are styled Yama (i.e. one who governs by ordinances). Hear (again) these my words.
सावित्र्युवाच पतास्त्वयैता नियमेन संयता नियम्य चैता नयसे निकामया। ततो यमत्वं तव देव विश्रुतं निबोध चेमां गिरमीरितां मया॥