Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2734

v2.c31.2734

It is evidently with this same significance that the term Māra, in the older books, is applied to the whole of the worldly existence, the five khandhas, or the realm of rebirth, as opposed to Nibbāna. Thus Māra is defined at CNid. (No. 506) as kammābisaṅkhāravasena paṭisandhiko kandhamāro dhātumāro, āyatanamāro. And again: Māro Māro ti bhante vuccati katamo nu kho bhante Māro ti? Rūpaṃ kho, Rādha, Māro, vedanāmāro, saññāmāro, saṅkhāramāro viññāṇaṃ Māro (S. iii. 195); yo kho Rādha Māro tatra chando pahātabbo. Ko ca Rādha Māro? Rūpaṃ kho Rādha Māro . . . pe . . . vedanāmāro. Tatra kho Rādha chando pahātabbo (S. iii. 198); sa upādiyamāno kho bhikkhu baddho Mārassa, anupadiyamāno mutto pāpimato (S. iii. 74); evam sukhumaṃ kho bhikkhave, Vepacittibandhanam; tato sukhumataram mārabandhanam; maññamāno kho bhikkhave baddho Mārassa, amaññamāno mutto pāpimato (S. iv. 202); labhati Māro otāraṃ, labhati Māro ārammaṇaṃ (S. iv. 85); santi bhikkhave cakkhuviññeyyarūpā . . . pe . . . tañ ce bhikkhu abhinandati . . . pe . . . ayam vuccati bhikkhave bhikkhu āvāsagato Mārassa, Mārassa vasam gato (S. iv. 91); dhunātha maccuno senaṃ naḷāgāraṃ va kuñjaro ti paññindriyassa padaṭṭhānaṃ (Netti, p. 40); rūpe kho Rādha sati Māro vā assa māretā vā yo vā pana mīyati. Tasmā he tvaṃ Rādha rūpaṃ māro ti passa māretā ti passa . . . ye nam evam passantī te sammā passanti (S. iii. 189); Mārasamyogan ti tebhūmakavaṭṭaṃ (SNA. ii. 506).