1) Hindu goddess 
In Hinduism, {IAST|Nirṛti} निरृति is the goddess of death and corruption, one of the dikpāla (Guardians of the directions), representing the southwest (or—according Monier-Williams’s Sanskrit-English Dictionary—the south). The name {IAST|nir−ṛt-} has the meaning of `absence of ṛta, lawless`. The masculine form of the n.....