Note 25 — INTRODUCTION. (continued 2)

Footnote 25:

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It is well known that, with the exception of the Svitâsvatara and Maitrâyanîya, none of the chief Upanishads exhibits the word 'mâyâ.' The term indeed occurs in one place in the Brihadâranyaka; but that passage is a quotation from the Rik Sambitâ in which mâyâ means 'creative power.' Cp. P. Régnaud, La Mâyâ, in the Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, tome xii, No. 3, 1885.