June topic: mAyA in the Vedas: General Info.

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Namaste All,

With the end of June approaching I thought that I

should post some useful infromation so that one day,

if you had the impulse to look further into this

topic, you have the necessary references.

 

Enjoy your future studies.

 

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1) From ‘The Doctrine of Maya in the Philosophy of

Vedanta’ P D Shastri :

 

There are seventy-five hymns in R.V. in which the word

mAyA appears in its simple or compound forms. This

list is collated under the deity to whom it is

addressed.

 

Thirty-five to Indra (I: 11,32,33,51,56,80,144,160;

II: 11,17; III, 334,53; IV: 16,30; V: 30,31; VI:

18,20,22,44,45,47; VII 28,98,104; VIII: 3,14,76;

X:73,99,111,138,147)

Eight to Agni ( I:. 144 ; III: 20, 27; V. 2; VII.: 1;

VIII: 23; X:5, 53) ;

Four to the ASvins (I: 117; V. 78; VI. 63; X: 24)

Four to the Maruts (I: 39, 64; V: 58; VI 48);

Three to ViSvedevAH (III: 56; V. 44, 48);

Two to Varuna (V. 85; VIII: 41),

Two to Soma (IX. 73, 83),

Two to Mitravarunau (I:151; V. 63),

DyAva-pRthivyau (I: 100, 159);

One each to Ushas (III. 61), SarasvatI (VI:61 ), the

Adityas (II:27), PUshan (VI:58), Atri (V: 40), JnAnam

(X: 71), the Rbhus (III: 60), IndrAvarunau (VII: 82),

SomArkau (X.:85), MAyAbheda (X:177), IndrAvishnU

(VII:99) ; PrajApati-VaiSvAmitra (III: 38), and

SUrya-vaiSvAnarau ( X:88).

 

 

2) MAyA is a feminine noun. In case you are not

familiar with such terms, we need to label words to

establish the part they play in a sentence. Nominative

(Subject)

Accusative (Object)

Instrumental (by or with)

Dative (to or for)

Ablative (from)

Genitive (of the)

Locative (in)

Vocative (O) as in O Lord Krishna

 

We also need to know the related noun mAyin, skilled

in art or enchantment, later meaning magician.

 

 

3) The following list of the usage of mAyA in the

RigVeda is also from ‘The Doctrine of Maya in the

Philosophy of Vedanta’ P D Shastri :

 

(1) mAyAH (nominative and accusative plural

twenty-four times) I..32.4 I.l17.3 II.:11.10,

27.26; III: 20.3 , 53.8 ; V:2.9 , 31.7 , 40.8 ;

VI:.18.9 , 20.4 , .22.9 ,44.22 45.9, 58.l ;

VII.:1.lO,98.5, 99.4 ; VIII:.41.8 ; X.:53.9, 73.5,

99.2, 111.6.

(2) rnAyayA (instrumental singular nineteen times)

I:80.7 , 144.1, 160.3 ; II:.17.5; III:.27.7

IV:30.l2 , 30.21 ; V.63.3, 63.7 ; VI: 22.6, 23.15

; VII: 4l.3 ,104.24 ; IX:.73.5 ,73.9 , 83.3 ;

X.:71.5 , 85.l8 , 177.l

(3) mAyinaH (accusative plural and genitive singular

of mAyin fifteen times)

I:.39.2 , 51.5 , 54.4 , 64.7 ,159.4 ; II:11.10 ;

III.38.7, 38.9, 56.1 ; V.44.11 ; VI:.61.3 ;

VII: 82.3 ; VIII:.3.19,.23.14 X.l38.3

(4) mAyAbhiH (instrumental plural thirteen times)

I:11.7, 33.10 , 51.5 , 51.9 ; III.: 34.6, 60.1

; V:30.6, 44.2, .78.6 ; VI:.47.l8, 63.5 ; VII:

l4.14 X.147.2

(5) mAyinam (accusative singular of mAyin ten times)

I.:11.7, 53.7, 56.3 , 80.7 II.:11.5

; V:30.6 , 58.2 VI.48.14 ; VIII:76.1 ;

X.147.2.

(6) mAyA (three times) III: 61.7 ; V:.63.4 ;

X.54.2

(7) mAyAm (accusative singular three times) V:85.5,

85.6 ; X:.88.6

(8) mAyI (nominative singular of mAyin three times)

VII: 28.4 ; X.99.10 ; X: 147.5

(9) mAyinam (three times) I:32.4 ; III.: 20.3 ,

34.3

(10) mAyinI (two times) V: 48.1 ; X:.5.3

(11) mAyyinA (instrumental singular of mAyin) VI:63.5

(12) mAyini V: 48.3

(13) mAyAvinA X:24.4

(14) mAyAvAn IV:16.9

(15) mAyAvinam II:11.9

(16) mAyAvinaH X: 83.3

 

 

 

‘From this Supreme Self are all these, indeed,

breathed forth.’

 

 

 

 

 

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‘From this Supreme Self are all these, indeed, breathed forth.’