Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c27.729
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c27.729
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3. Padhāna Sutta.—The Buddha describes how, when he gave himself up to meditation in order to win Enlightenment, Māra (Namuci) came to tempt him with his eightfold army of lust, discontent, hunger and thirst, craving, cowardice, doubt, hypocrisy and stupour. But the Buddha was firm, and Māra retired discomfited.¹