Talk:Mara Detron/@comment-24031872-20150210014232

Mara is hebrew for bitter? Really? We're going with that?

Mara ( Sanskrit:  māra;  Chinese:  魔 ;  pinyin:  mó; Tibetan Wylie:  bdud;  Burmese:  မာရ်နတ် ;  Thai:  มาร ), in  Buddhism, is the  demon<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> that tempted  Gautama Buddha<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">[1] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> In  Buddhist cosmology<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">, Mara personifies unwholesome impulses, unskillfulness, the "death" <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:11.1999998092651px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">[2] <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> 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.

<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">The word "Māra" comes from the  Proto-Indo-European root<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> * mer<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> meaning to die. The Sanskrit form of the verbal root is √ mṛ<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">. It takes a present indicative form  mṛyate<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> and a causative form  mārayati<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> (with strengthening of the root vowel from ṛ to ār). Māra<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> 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<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> and  mṛtyu<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">. The latter is a name for death personified and is sometimes identified with  Yama<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">.

<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_%28demon%29