Mahamaya, Mahāmāya, Mahāmāyā, Maha-maya: 32 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Mahāmāya (महामाय):—[(ma + māyā)]

1) adj. wobei grosser Trug angewendet wird: astra [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 29 (30] [Gorresio][), 18.] grossen Trug anwendend, gross im Täuschen: rākṣasa [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 80, 2. 6, 33, 46.] Beiw. und Beiname Viṣṇu’s [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 72.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 2, 1.] [PAÑCAR. 4, 3, 25. Śiva’s] [Mahābhārata 13, 1201.] māyā f. Beiw. und Beiname der Durgā (vgl. mahāmāyā) [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 48.] [WILSON, Sel. Works 1, 93.] [Kalikāpurāṇa 6 im Śabdakalpadruma] māyī f. desgl. [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] —

2) m. Nomen proprium eines Asura [Kathāsaritsāgara 45, 225. 46, 38. 47, 29.] —

3) f. ā Nomen proprium einer Gemahlin Śuddhodana’s [Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s 234 (4).] [Burnouf 383.] [Hiouen-Thsang 1, 310.]

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Mahāmāyā (महामाया):—(wie eben) f. die grosse Täuschung, die göttliche Macht der Täuschung, die die Welt als wirklich bestehend erscheinen lässt und sie also gewissermaassen schafft, [Oxforder Handschriften 80,a,29. 33. 81,a,23. fgg.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 81,40. fgg.] mit der Durgā identificirt [58.] dhara Beiw. Viṣṇu’s [Mahābhārata 12, 12864.]

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Mahāmāya (महामाय):—

2) Nomen proprium eines Vidyādhara [Kathāsaritsāgara 109, 70.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Mahāmāya (महामाय):——

1) Adj. (f. ā) — a) wobei grosser Trug angewendet wird. — b) grossen Trug anwendend , gross im Täuschen [119,14.] —

2) m. — a) Beiname — α) Viṣṇu's. — β) Śiva's. — b) Nomen proprium — α) eines Asura. — β) eines Vidyādhara. —

3) f. ā — a) Beiname der Durgā. — b) Nomen proprium einer Gattin Śuddhodana's. —

4) *f. ī Beiname der Durgā.

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Mahāmāyā (महामाया):—f. die grosse Täuschung , die göttliche Macht der Täuschung , welche die Welt als wirklich bestehend erscheinen lässt und sie also gewissermassen schafft. Wird auch mit der Durgā identificirt.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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