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Praveen R. Bhat bhatpraveen at gmail.com
Sun Jun 25 03:45:10 EDT 2017


Namaste Chandramouliji,

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 1:09 PM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> You had mentioned मायायाः माया (mAyAyAH mAyA).  Based on  << मायां तु
> प्रकृतिं विद्यान्मायिनं तु महेश्वरम्’ (श्वे. उ. ४ । १०)  (mAyAM tu
> prakRRitiM vidyAnmAyinaM tu maheshvaram’ (shve. u. 4 | 10) >>,  can we
> modify your statement to मायायाः मायी (mAyAyAH mAyI).  Would it be proper
> grammatically ?
>

​Grammatically, मायी itself means माया अस्य अस्ति इति मायी one who has
(=wields) mAyA is a mAyin.​ So I wouldn't use मायायाः मायी।

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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