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32 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAintroduction to the conception of maya in the following chapter. The meaning of the term having beendiscussed, we will now attempt to trace the development of the theory or the idea of Maya from theVedic times down to Sankara s, when its usage wasfinally settled, limiting ourselves to the system ofthe Vedanta proper.If we were to attempt to trace the conception ofMaya or its alternative conceptions in other systems,it would lead us out of our present scope. We hope,however, to be able sometime in the near future towrite a separate treatise on this doctrine with specialreference to its place in modern Hindu philosophyand its analogies in other Eastern and Western ReliFor the present we havegions and Philosophies.to confine ourselves mainly to the historical view ofthe conception of Maya within the system of theVedanta.