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Mara (demon)
Mara (Sanskrit: ''māra''; ; Tibetan Wylie: ''bdud''; (クメール語:មារ); (ビルマ語:မာရ်နတ်); (タイ語:มาร); (シンハラ語:මාරයා)), in Buddhism, is the demon that tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters.〔See, for instance, SN 4.25, entitled, "Māra's Daughters" (Bodhi, 2000, pp. 217-20), as well as Sn 835 (Saddhatissa, 1998, page 98). In each of these texts, Mara's daughters (''Māradhītā'') are personified by sensual Craving (''taṇhā''), Aversion (''arati'') and Passion (''rāga'').〕 In Buddhist cosmology, Mara personifies unwholesome impulses, unskillfulness, the "death"〔(Mara-the god of death )〕 of the spiritual life. He is a tempter, distracting humans from practicing the spiritual life by making mundane things alluring, or the negative seem positive.
==Etymology==
The word "Māra" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root
*''mer'' meaning to die. The word ''"mer"'' is also found in the Pashto language and has the same meaning. The Sanskrit form of the verbal root is √''mṛ''. It takes a present indicative form ''mṛyate'' and a causative form ''mārayati'' (with strengthening of the root vowel from ṛ to ār). ''Māra'' is a verbal noun from the causative root and means 'causing death' or 'killing'. It is related to other words for death from the same root, such as: ''maraṇa'' and ''mṛtyu''. The latter is a name for death personified and is sometimes identified with Yama.
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