مایا

माया māyā, s.f. Extraordinary or supernatural power, magical or wonderful power;—illusion; trick, artifice, deceit, deception, fraud; delusion; jugglery; wickedness, villainy;—an illusory image or apparition, phantasm, phantom; anything unreal; a mirage; anything which deceives the sight; a show;—a deception depending on the power of the deity whereby mankind believe in the existence of external objects which are in fact purely ideal; the external world, natural phenomena, nature (considered as a mere illusion without reality, and personified in mythology as a female, the wife of Brahmā, and the immediate operative cause of the creation);—philosophic illusion, idealism;—the wife of a juggler;—a woman;—prosperity, opulence, riches; life; light;—compassion, pity, sympathy, mercy, kindness, affection, feeling:—māyā-bhūmi, s.f. A place of deception; a locality where wickedness abounds:—māyā-pātra, s.m. 'A vessel of wealth'; a wealthy person;—adj. Opulent, wealthy, rich:—māyā-pati, s.m. 'Lord of illusion'; a master in illusions; the husband of Illusion personified; an epithet of the deity or of Rāma:—māyā-paṭu, adj. & s.m.f. Skilled in illusion, or in magical arts; expert in deceiving; delusive, deceptive, fraudulent:—māyātīt (˚yā+at˚), adj. Beyond the influence of illusion (said of the saints and the deity);—beyond the influence of compassion, without compassion, merciless, unfeeling (syn. māyā-rahit):—māyā-rūp, or māyā-rūpī, adj. Illusory, unreal, false, deceptive:—māyā-rahit, adj. (f. -ā), Without compassion, pitiless, merciless, unfeeling; unloving:—māyā-moh, s.m. Illusion and ignorance:—māyā-may, adj. (f. -ī), Consisting of illusion; formed of or creating illusion; illusive, illusory, unreal, deceptive; enchanted; magical; wonderful:—māyā-vat, māyā-vant, or māyā-vān, adj. & s.m. (f. -vatī), Possessing powers of illusion; having magical powers; skilled in magical arts; employing deceit, or tricks; deceptive; magical; illusory, unreal;—a deceiver, etc.;—an epithet of Kans;—māyā-vatī, s.f. A female deceiver;—an epithet of the wife of Kām:—māyā-vidyā, s.f. The science of illusion; magic.