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मायावी (mAyAvI)

 
Wordnet
Sanskrit
Synonyms:
 मायावी, ऐन्द्रजालिक
adjective
यः इन्द्रजालं करोति।
"लक्ष्मणः मायाविनं मेघनादं जघान।"
Synonyms:
 मायाकारः, मायाकृत्, मायी, मायिकः, मायावी, मायाजीवी
noun
यः मायया क्रीडां करोति।
"मायाकारेण वस्त्रात् पुष्पस्य निर्माणं कृतम्।"
पुराणम्
English
मायावी / MĀYĀVĪ. An asura.1) Birth. māyāvī was born to the great architect of the Dānavas, maya, of his wife hemā, a nymph. maya fell in love with hemā when he once found her dancing in Devaloka and the devas coming to know of it gave her in marriage to maya. maya took hemā to the southern side of the Himālayas and constructing a city there called Hemapura stayed there happily. They got two sons named māyāvī and dundubhi. (uttara rāmāyaṇa).2) death. Valorous māyāvī fought against anybody and everybody. He once challenged bāli to a fight. But the mighty blows of bāli were unbearable to him and the defeated māyāvī ran away from bāli and hid himself in a big cave. bāli followed him and when he reached the mouth of the cave he posted his brother sugrīva there with instructions to shut tight the opening of the cave in case he died in the cave in the fight. He said that if blood flowed from the cave the dead person was māyāvī and if milk flowed from the cave the dead person was himself. In the cave a great fight ensued in which māyāvī was killed. But māyāvī by his powers of magic made the blood that flowed out look like milk for sugrīva and the latter thinking that it was his brother who was killed shut tight the mouth of the cave and went his way. (sarga 9, kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa, vālmīki rāmāyaṇa and Pūrva Kāṇḍa, Kamba rāmāyaṇa.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
मायावी, [त्]
पुं,
 (प्रशस्ता मायाकापट्यमस्त्य-स्येति । माया + “अस्मायामेधास्रजो विनिः ।”५ । २ । १२१ । इति विनिः ।) मायाकारः ।तत्पर्य्यायः । व्यंसकः २ मायी ३ मायिकः ४ऐन्द्रजालिकः ५ । इति जटाधरः ॥
(यथा, मार्कण्डेये । २२ । ७ ।“मायावी दानवः सोऽथ मुनिरूपं समास्थितः ।स प्राह राजपुत्त्रं तं पूर्व्ववैरमनुस्मरन् ॥
”)विडालः । इति राजनिर्घण्टः ॥
(मोहन-शक्तियुक्तः परमात्मा । यथा, पञ्चदश्याम् । ६ । ४ ।“स्ततश्चिदन्तर्यामी तु मायावी सूक्ष्मसृष्टितः ।सूत्रात्मा स्थूलसृष्ट्यैव विराडित्युच्यते परः ॥
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