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Māyā ( Pali id. ), often Māyā-devī as cpd. , also Mahāmāyā , 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 Senartʼs 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 Vairocanaʼs 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 cakravartin 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 (sarvabodhisattva-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 Śuddhodanaʼs wife; in 441.6 ff. she says that as she was the Buddha Vairocanaʼs 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 ).