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"""""""""16 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAas Sayana also adds, it means by divine power."Further the Satapatha-Brahmana * too containsthe forms mayam (ii. 4. 25), and maye (iii.2. 4. i), mayavant (xiii. 5. 4. 12) where the wordmeanssupernatural power." 2 The PaficavimsatiBrahmana also has the word mayaya (xiii.6. 9) in the same sense. Mayavant (as an adj.)is seen in Ait. Br. viii. 23, and in Sat. Br. xiii. 5. 4.12. These typical examples are more than sufficient for our purpose, and we now hasten to quotereferences from the Upanisads and from the Bhagavadgita,which may be termed the final Upanisad orthe kernel of all the Upanisads. 3The Brhadaranyaka Upanisad, the oldest as wellas the most important in many ways, contains the4word mayabhih (ii. 5. 19) the Prasna Up.,with the Commentary of Sayana, ed. by Rajendra LalaMitra, Calcutta, 1859, vol. iii. p. 237.1The Satapatha Brahmana of the White Yajurveda, withSayana sCom., ed. byAcarya Satyavrata Samasrami ;vol.ii., Kanda II, Calcutta, 1906, p. 191, and vol. iii, Kandalll,Calcutta, 1905, p. 119 (Bibl. Ind.).2Sayana translates maya here as Aghatita-ghatanasaktih,"and in the next passage expresses the same ideaby paramavyamohakarim saktih." These synonymsgive a clear explanation.3See G. A. Jacob, Concordance to the Principal Upanisadsand Bhagavadgita.*This is the famous quotation from R.V. vi. 47. 18,which also occurs in Sat. Br. xiv. 5. 5. 19 ;also in Jaimimya-UpanisadBr. i. 44. i. See Brhadaranyakopanisad,herausgegeben und iibersetzt von O. Bohtlingk, St. Petersburg, 1889, p. 22.