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""""namo"""""""""""""HISTORY OF THE WORD "MAYA" 19mayavidye ye kalaparatattvemayamayaya ca" (30).(89).The Gopicandana Up. readsmayasahitabrahmasambhogavasatmayasabalitam BrahmasitThe Krsna Up. alsoreads(Ibid.).maya sa trividha- prokta (5).maya tredha hy udahrta (6).ajayya Vaisnavi maya" (7).Harih saksan mayavigrahadharanahMayaya mohitam jagat (12).tasya maya jagat katham (13).In all these passages may a meansillusion,"(4).(n).appearance,"1 etc. The same sense is further foundin sa evam mayaparimohitatma (KaivalyaUp. 12), and indrajalam iva mayamayam (MaitriUp. iv. 2).One of the most brilliant and important works onAdvaitism isGaudapada s Karikas on the MandukyaUpanisad. 2 These are divided into four parts(prakaranas) : (i) Agama ; (2) Vaitathya ; (3)Advaita ; (4) Alata-santi, each of which isregardedas a separate Upanisad. Of the subject-matterof this important work we shall have occasion tospeak in Chapter II.But here we may only pointhere.1 We are consciously using these two words as synonyms2The Mandukya-Upanisad (of A.V.) with Gaudapada sKarikas, together with Sarikara s Comm., AnandasramaSeries, No. 10, 1890, Poona.