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"ref": "1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Phoenix House, page 891",
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"text": "Eventually, Pran and Savita decided by correspondence on Maya. Its two simple syllables meant, among other things: the goddess Lakshmi, illusion, fascination, art, the goddess Durga, kindness, and the name of the mother of Buddha. It also meant: ignorance, delusion, fraud, guile, and hypocrisy; but no one who named their daughter Maya ever paid any attention to those pejorative possibilities.",
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"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "maitaumaya",
"sense": "mother of Gautama Buddha",
"word": "မယ်တော်မာယာ"
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"sense": "mother of Gautama Buddha",
"word": "摩耶夫人"
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"word": "ព្រះនាងមាយា"
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"roman": "māyā dēwiya",
"sense": "mother of Gautama Buddha",
"word": "මායා දේවිය"
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"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "mother of Gautama Buddha",
"word": "พระนางสิริมหามายา"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "mother of Gautama Buddha",
"word": "Hoàng hậu Maya"
}
],
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"Maya (mother of the Buddha)"
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