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Maya is a more historical person. Several existing architectural treatises are ascribed to him.³ He may not be as old as the Zend Āvesta, Ahura-Mazda and Maya-Asura are perhaps not one and the same person. But he is mentioned in unmistakable terms as the architect of a wonderful council hall, of which it is stated there could not be any parallel in the world of the mortals, and whereon all heavenly ideas were depicted in bricks and stones. He declares himself as a great poet of architecture (*mahākavi*), a Ruskin, among the rivals of gods, and he is their Viśvakarman who was the heavenly architect among the gods.⁴
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