THE Doctrine of Maya - HolyBooks.com
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""Gautamas"""mayam"""""""""""""HISTORY OF <strong>THE</strong> WORD "MAYA"27other ideas also. Sometimes it means1juggler."a femaleAgain it means "deception"or fraud(kapata) or hypocrisy (chadma), e.g., in the Mahabharata."sevetamamayaya gurumi.e.,let both <strong>of</strong> them serve the teacher without(xiii. 7,595)-any deception."It also means illusion in an unphilosophicalsense, i.e., in an ordinary way free from thetechnical shade <strong>of</strong> the philosophical idea. Forexample, in the Raghuvamsa we readmayodbhavya pariksito si(ii. 62),i.e., you have been tested by me creatingillusion."The word is also used sometimes as a proper name.Buddha s mother was called maya (fullname :maya Devi as"), mayadevisutais one <strong>of</strong>Buddha s names mentioned in the Amarakosa." 22Amarakosa, ed. Colebrooke, Ibid. p. 3, Ioka 10 :ca-arkabandhus ca mayadevisutas ca sah." Cf .also Max Miiller s Six Systems <strong>of</strong> Indian Philosophy, Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, p. 122. See also "maya"inWilson s Dictionary in Sanskrit and English, second enlarged1 Cf. Amarakosa (Dictionary1<strong>of</strong> the Sanskrit Language, byAmara Simha), edited with an English interpretation andannotations by H. T. Colebrooke, Serampur, 1808, p. 241,Sloka ii :syan maya sambari mayakaras tu pratiharikah."edition, Calcutta, 1832, p. 657 ;also Sanskrit Dictionary,by Taranatha Tarkavacaspati, Calcutta, 1882 ;Padmacandrakosa,by Pr<strong>of</strong>. Ganesh Datta Shastri, Nirnaya-sagara