Māyā (12002)

Māyā
Entry 12002, Page 430, Col. 1

(mAyA, mAyA)
Māyā¦ (Pali id.), often Māyā-devī as cpd., also Ma- hāmāyā, q.v., (1) n. of the wife of Śuddhodana and mother of Śākyamuni: Mvy 1069 (Māyādevī); her origin and history, Mv i.355.17 ff. (many other refs. to her, see Senart's Index); LV 26.15; 28.8 ff.; 78.1; 252.13, 15; Suv 239.5 (vs, Māya-devī, m.c.); Gv 375.1; in Gv, where Vairocana, q.v., seems blended with Śākyamuni, she is also Vairo- cana's mother (381.5; 338.25, cf. 339.3) in all his existences (as a result of a praṇidhāna made ages ago, 444.20 ff., that she might always be the mother of a certain cakra- vartin who became Vairocana, 445.4); in Gv 426.11--12 she is called bodhisattva-janetrī and located bhagavato Vairocanasya pādamūle; in 438.8 she made a praṇidhāna to be the mother of all Bodhisattvas and Buddhas (sarva- bodhisattva-jina-janetrī-pra°); in 438.23 ff. she says that she has been the mother of all caramabhavika (q.v.) Bodhisattvas in all the lokadhātus of the Lord Vairocana, and then (439.1--2) that she gave birth to the Bodhisattva Siddhārtha, ‘in this very Bhāgavatī cāturdvīpikā’, in Kapilavastu, as Śuddhodana's wife; in 441.6 ff. she says that as she was the Buddha Vairocana's mother, so she was the mother of all past Buddhas, and will be of future Buddhas, Maitreya etc.; (2) n. of a deity attendant on the four direction-rulers: Mahāsamāj. Waldschmidt, Kl. Skt. Texte 4, 173.9; = Pali id., DN ii.258.9 (not in DPPN).