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""Gautamas"""mayam"""""""""""""HISTORY OF THE 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 of 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 of 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 ofBuddha 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 of Indian Philosophy, Longmans, Green & Co., 1899, p. 122. See also "maya"inWilson s Dictionary in Sanskrit and English, second enlarged1 Cf. Amarakosa (Dictionary1of 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 Prof. Ganesh Datta Shastri, Nirnaya-sagara