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"""""""""""HISTORY OF THE WORD"MAYA"15details here. The really philosophical treatises,which are of fundamental importance for our purpose, are the final portions of the Brahmanas, calledthe Upanisads. But before we take up the Upani-a few references fromsads proper, we may quotethe Brahmanas too in the way of Sthdll-pulakanydya.1The2Vajasaneyi-Samhita contains the formsmaya (xi. 69), mayam, 3 mayaya 4 and mayayam, 6and Mahidhara in his commentary gives the wordsprajna and buddhi as synonyms of maya."The Aitareya Brahmana 6 has mayaya (vi. 36),mayam, mayavant, and mayavattarah (viii. 23),where the word clearly means supernatural ormagical The form mayaya also occursskill."in the Taittiriya Brahmana 7 10.(iii. 8. 2) where,1i.e., the maxim of the cooking-pot and the boilingrice."By finding one grain well-cooked we infer the samewith regard to all the others. So the conditions of the classmay be inferred from that of a part, if the whole is made upof homogeneous and similar parts. Cf. Patanj all s Mahabhasya,i. 4. 23 (Vart. 15). Paryapto hi ekah pulakahsthalya nidarsanaya."2Weber, The White Yajurveda, part I, The Vajasaneyi-Samhita, in the Madhyandina and the Kanva-Sakha, withthe commentary of Mahidhara. Berlin and London, 1852.3Ibid., p. 420. V.S. xiii. 44. Mahidhara adds,jndyate anaya iti maya,"*Ibid., p. 728, V.S. xxiii. 52.5miyateIbid., p. 841, V.S. xxx. 7.8Das Aitareya Brahmana, herausgegeben von TheodorAufrecht, Bonn, 1879. See p. 184 and 230.7The Taittiriya Brahmana of the Black Yafurveda,