Ma'gadha, _p._ and _skt._, name of a country. Ma'gga, Mā'rga, _skt._, path; especially used in the Pāli phrase "Ariyo atthangiko maggo," the noble eightfold path, which consists of: right views, high aims, right speech, upright conduct, a harmless livelihood, perseverance in well-doing, intellectual activity, and earnest thought. [See _S.B.E_, Vol. XI, pp. 63 and 147.] Mahārā'ja, the great king. Mahāse'tu, the great bridge. A name invented by the author of the present book to designate the importance of Christianity compared to the Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna of Buddhism. Mahāyā'na, the great vehicle, viz., of salvation. Name of the Northern conception of Buddhism, comparing religion to a great ship in which men can cross the stream of Samsāra to reach the shore of Nirvāna. Ma'lla, _p._ and _skt._, name of a tribe. Manasā'kata, _p._, Manasā'krita, _skt._, a village in Kosala. Mandā'ra, _p._ and _skt._, a flower of great beauty. Mā'ra, _p._ and _skt._, the Evil One, the tempter, the destroyer, the god of lust, sin, and death. Māra's daughters are always three in number but their names are variously given as Tanhā, Arati, Rati (Dh. 164), and Tanhā, Arati, Ragā (Ab. 44 etc.). Mā'tali, _p._ and _skt._, name of a demon in the retinue of Yama. Māta'nga, _p._ and _skt._, literally, of low birth; the Matanga caste comprises mongrels of the lowest with higher castes. Mā'thura, and _skt._, name of a place. Mā'yā, _p._ and _skt._, Buddha's mother. (See Māyā-devī.) The term "veil of Māyā," viz., the illusion of self, popularly known through Schopenhauer, does not refer to Buddha's mother, but to the Vedantic conception of māyā. The word means "charm, magic enhancement." The similarity of sound in the names Māyā and Maria is curious. Māyā-de'vī, also called Mahā-Māyā, or simply Māyā, _p._ and _skt._, the wife of Suddhodana and mother of Buddha. She died in childbed, and Buddha ascends to heaven to preach to her the good law and the gospel of salvation. Mette'yya, Maitre'ya, _skt._, etymology, "full of kindness"; the name of the Buddha to come. Moggallā'na, _p._, Maudgalyā'yana, _skt._, one of the most prominent disciples of Buddha, a friend of Sāriputta. Mu'ni, _skt._ and _p._, a thinker, a sage; especially a religious thinker. Sakyamu'ni, the sage of the Sakyas, is Buddha. Nadī'-Ka'ssapa, _p._, Nadī-Kā's'yapa, _skt._, brother of the great Kassapa of Uruvelā. Nā'dika, _p._ and _skt._, name of a village. Nā'ga, _p._ and _skt._, literally serpent. The serpent being regarded as a superior being, the word denotes a special kind of spiritual beings; a sage, a man of spiritual insight; any superior personality. Nāga kings. Nalagiri, name of an elephant. Nāla'ndā, _p._ and _skt._, a village near Rājagaha. Nanda, _p._, Siddhattha's halfbrother, son of Pajāpatī. Na'ndā, daughter of a chief of shepherds, also called Sujātā. Nātapu'tta, _Jain Prakrit_, Jñātapu'tra, _skt._, the son of Jñāta. Patronym of Vardhamāna, the founder of Jainism.