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Krishna vs Maya - What's the difference?

krishna | maya |

As proper nouns the difference between krishna and maya

is that krishna is a deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism. Krishna is often depicted as a young cowherd boy with a dark or blue complexion playing a flute (as in the Bhagavata Purana) or a youthful prince giving philosophical direction and guidance (as in the Bhagavad Gita) He is the divine speaker of the Bhagavad-gita and the eighth avatar of Vishnu while Maya is a member of a Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala in the 4th to 10th centuries.

krishna

English

(wikipedia Krishna)

Alternative forms

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Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Hinduism) A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism. Krishna is often depicted as a young cowherd boy with a dark or blue complexion playing a flute (as in the Bhagavata Purana) or a youthful prince giving philosophical direction and guidance (as in the Bhagavad Gita) He is the divine speaker of the Bhagavad-gita and the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
  • A river in southern India.
  • A district in South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
  • and a surname used in India.

    • Derived terms

    * Krishnaism

    External links

    * (wikipedia "Krishna") ----

    maya

    English

    Etymology 1

    Self-designation of the Yucatec Mayas.

    Proper noun

    (wikipedia Maya) (en-proper noun)
  • A member of a Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala in the 4th to 10th centuries.
  • A descendant of these people.
  • Any of the Mayan languages, such as and Yucatec.

    • See also

    * Aztec * Inca * Mesoamerica * Olmec * Toltec

    External links

    Ethnologue report on the Maya languages

    Etymology 2

    From Maria, ultimately from (etyl), and from Maia, from (etyl).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • of modern usage.
  • * 1988 , Picasso, Creator and Destroyer , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671454463, page 240
    • When her little friends asked her what her name was, her father replied that it was Conchita - his diminutive for Maria de la Concepción. "Con-what?" they would ask again, aware, apparently, that con'' in French is a fool, an idiot. So her parents started calling her Maria, which from the little girl's lips soon began to sound like Maya'''. "'''Maya'''!" exclaimed her father. "It's perfect. It means the greatest illusion on earth." So '''Maya''' it was from then on - ' Maya Walter.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • In Sanskrit, illusion; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this").
  • used in India.
  • * 1993 , A Suitable Boy , Phoenix House, ISBN 1897580207, page 891
    • Eventually, Pran and Savita decided by correspondence on Maya'. Its two simple syllables meant, among other things: the goddess Lakshmi, illusion, fascination, art, the goddess Durga, kindness, and the name of the mother of Buddha. It also meant: ignorance, delusion, fraud, guile, and hypocrisy; but no one who named their daughter ' Maya ever paid any attention to those pejorative possibilities.
    - - - 'Why ever not, Ma?' said Meenakshi.'It's a very Bengali name, a very nice name.'

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