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"Mara" Quotes from Famous Books

... re-born in Patala-loka as Dhara[n.]endra or Nagendra-Yaksha and Padmavati-Yakshi[n.]i. When Sambaradeva or Meghakumara afterwards attacked the Arbat with a great storm, whilst he was engaged in the Kayotsarga austerity—standing immovable, exposed to the weather—much in the way that Mara attacked ['S]akya Buddha at Bodh-gaya, Dhara[n.]endra's throne in Patala thereupon shook, and the Naga or Yaksha with his consort at once sped to the protection of his former benefactor. Dhara[n.]endra spread his many hoods over the head of the Arhata and ...

— On the Indian Sect of the Jainas • Johann George Buehler

... wherever they are found in the demesnes in the Forest—excepting two forges belonging to Ralph Avenell, concerning which he has the charter of King John, and excepting four 'Blissahiis;' Will. de Dene, & Robert de Alba Mara, & Will. de Abbenhale, & Thomas de Blakencia, and excepting the forges of our servants of St. Briavells, which ought to be sustained with ...

— Iron Making in the Olden Times - as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean • H. G. Nicholls

... have been mara [nightmare], I think," he said, "for though I never had it before, it seemed to me very like what Guttorm Stoutheart says he always has after eating ...

— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne

Words linked to "Mara" : genus Dolichotis, gnawer, Hindu deity, rodent, Dolichotis, Dolichotis patagonum