The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 135
114 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. him in the hope of awakening in him a thought of hist or hatred orenvy, who follows him like a shadow, can be no one but MaraPapiyan, the Wicked One, the demon of passion. The thunder-bolt in Maras hand is nothing but the old attribute of all Indiangods. In his… … Buddha, Tempted by Maras Daughters.Gandhara sculptures. (Reproduced from Griinwedel.) It seems probable that the contrast in which Mara orVarsavarti stands to the Buddha began by and by to bemisunderstood. For the thunderbolt-bearer Vajrapani isgradually changed into a regular attendant of…
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