...to have been originally derived from the Indian Maya, who is explained, by the Hindus, to signify, " the first inclination of the Godhead to diversify himself, by creating worlds ;" and whose offspring was Cama, or Love. — Thus, she resembles the Alma Vcnus of Lucretius, though,...

...Apollo of the Hindoos. KHANSAMAN. Land, or house-steward. LACKSHMI, or LACSHMI. The consort of Veeshnu. She, like the other Hindoo Goddesses, is distinguished...Delusion, has a more subtle and recondite sense in the " Vedanta Philosophy, where it signifies the system of " perceptions." — See Asiatic Researches....

...clearly arisen from the doctrine of successive similar mundane systems, that by Maya we are to understand the first inclination of the godhead to diversify himself by creating worlds : and Sir William Jones was told by a Cashmirian, that Maya herself is the mother of universal nature...

...were the only things united to birth. ° ' Or,' as the word is explained by some Hindoo scholars, ' the first Inclination of the Godhead to diversify himself, by creating worlds.' Sir W. Jones. i' It is called delusion, or appearance, to shew, that it is something assumed for an...

...Appollo of the Hindoos. KHANSAMAN. Land, or house steward. LACKSHHI, or LACSHHI. The consort of Veeshnu. She, like the other Hindoo Goddesses, is distinguished...first inclination of the Godhead to diversify himself ty creating rmrldi." ' But the word Maya, or Delusion, has a more subtle and recondite sense in the...

...Gods; as a Cashmirian informed me, when I asked him why C•ima, or Love, was representi d as her Son; but the word Maya, or Delusion, has a more subtle and recondite sense in the Ve'danti philosophy, where it signifies the system of perceptions, whether of secondary or primary...

...the original productive seed."—From the Rig-veda, by Colebrook, AR viii. 404. 2 " The Indian Maya, the first inclination of the Godhead to diversify Himself by creating worlds, is feigned to be the Mother of universal Nature."—Id. p. 230. 4 " Originally this universe was indeed...

...The consort of Veeshnû. She, like the other MAYA. Explained by some Hindoo scholars to be "theßrst inclination of the Godhead to diversify himself by...Delusion, has a more subtle and recondite sense in the Vedanta Philosophy, where it signifies the system of perceptions." — See Asiatic Researches. 1 MAHABBARET....