![]() ![]() ![]() Devaputra-māra - the deva of the sensuous realm, who tried to prevent Gautama Buddha from attaining liberation from the cycle of rebirth on the night of the Buddha’s enlightenment.Įarly Buddhism acknowledged both a literal and psychological interpretation of Mara.Skandha-māra - Māra as metaphor for the entirety of conditioned existence.Kleśa-māra - Māra as the embodiment of all unskillful emotions, such as greed, hate and delusion.In traditional Buddhism, four or five metaphorical forms of Māra are given: It is "very wide-spread" in Indo-European languages suggesting it to be of great antiquity, according to Mallory and Adams. The root mṛ is related to the Indo-European verbal root *mer meaning "die, disappear" in the context of "death, murder or destruction". The latter is a name for death personified and is sometimes identified with Yama. It is related to other words for death from the same root, such as: maraṇa and mṛtyu. Māra is a verbal noun from the causative root and means 'causing death' or 'killing'. It takes a present indicative form mṛyate and a causative form mārayati (with strengthening of the root vowel from ṛ to ār). The word Māra comes from the Sanskrit form of the verbal root mṛ. ![]()
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