Mahamaya, Mahāmāya, Mahāmāyā, Maha-maya: 32 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchMahāmāya (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 FassungMahāmāya (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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