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Sarvadarshanasangraha 7.112

Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 7.112

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Sanskrit

7.112

māty asyām śaktyātmanā pralaye sarvaṃ jagat sṛṣṭau vyaktim āyātīti māyā yathoktaṃ śrīmatsaurabheye —

(4.) "Māyā," because herein as an energy of the Divine Being all the world is potentially contained (māti) at a mundane destruction, and again at a creation it all comes (yāti) into manifestation, hence the derivation of the name. This has been said in the Śrīmat Saurabheya—

Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

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