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Maya  n.  
1.
(Hindu Philos.) The name (in Vedantic philosphy) for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
2.
(Hindu Philos.) The Hindu goddess personifying the power that creates phenomena.
3.
(Hindu Philos.) The power to produce illusions.





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"Maya" Quotes from Famous Books



... sword from a captain's belt then, but she kept the blue ribbon of his babyhood. There was a bit from Jack's first cravat, and Dick's flag, and her dear husband's wedding vest, and from the small silken shoes of the little Maya—dear little ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... without incident. The wourahli men set me off near the mouth of the Branco River, at a distance which I covered in less than five hours by following the banks. I was greeted by Coronel Maya of the Compagnie Transatlantique de Caoutchouc, who sent me by canoe down the old Itecoahy, until ...
— In The Amazon Jungle - Adventures In Remote Parts Of The Upper Amazon River, Including A - Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians • Algot Lange
... Brahma, or the immaterial? According to this system, there is only one Supreme Being, Paramatma, a name by which Brahma himself had been already distinguished in Manu's book of law. Outside of this highest Being, there is nothing real. The world of sense, or nature, (Maya, the female side of Brahma), is mere seeming and illusion of the senses. The human spirit is a part of Brahma, but perverted, misled by this same illusion to the conceit that he is individual. This illusion ...
— A Comparative View of Religions • Johannes Henricus Scholten
... America amongst the Mayas of Yucatan, whose traditions ascribe the origin of their civilization to a land across the sea to the east. Le Plongeon, the great authority on this subject, writes: "One-third of this tongue (the Maya) is pure Greek. Who brought the dialect of Homer to America? or who took to Greece that of the Mayas? Greek is the off-spring of the Sanscrit. Is Maya? or are they coeval?" Still more surprising is it to find thirteen letters out of the Maya alphabet bearing ...
— The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria • W. Scott-Elliot


Words linked to "Maya" :   Maya Lin, Amerindian language, Kekchi, quiche, Amerind, Cakchiquel, Indian, Mayan, Yucateco, Mam, federation of tribes, Red Indian, tribe, American Indian, American-Indian language, Yucatec


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