[Skt.] n. Fraud, trick, deceit, delusion, illusion, diplomacy. Conjuring, indrajalavidya. Ignorance, avidya. Philosophical illusion, the phenomenal-world, unreality of all worldly existence. This is personified in mythology as Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu, she being the immediate and active cause of creation. mayaprapancamu the delusive world. ‘Vanity’ in the theological sense: materiality as distinguished from intellectuality….