When this event took place, Queen Māyā was en route to birth him in his grandfather's kingdom.

Queen Māyā of Sakya ( Māyādevī ) was the birth mother of the historical Gautama Buddha, Siddhārtha of the Gautama gotra, and sister of Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī the first Buddhist nun ordained by the Buddha.

Māyā is also called Mahāmāyā (" Great Māyā ") and Māyādevī (" Queen, literally a female-deva, ' goddess ,' Māyā ").

The position of the Salabhanjika is also related to the position of Queen Māyā of Sakya when she gave birth to Gautama Buddha under an asoka tree in a garden in Lumbini, while grasping its branch.

Maya or Māyā ( Sanskrit ), in Indian religions, has multiple meanings, usually quoted as " illusion ", centered on the fact that we do not yet experience the environment directly but rather through some projection of itMaya sustains the self by blessing self judgement of self creation.

Māyā is the principal deity that manifests, perpetuates and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe.

Māyā may be understood as the phenomenal Universe of perceived duality, a lesser reality-lens superimposed on the unity of Brahman.

Māyā is held to be an illusion, a veiling of the true, unitary Self — the Cosmic Spirit also known as Brahman.

Māyā is a fact in that it is the appearance of phenomena.

Māyā has two principal functions: one is to veil Brahman and obscure and conceal it from our consciousness ; the other is to present and promulgate the material world and the veil of duality instead of Brahman.

Arjuna, God abides in the heart of all creatures, causing them to revolve according to their Karma by His illusive power ( Māyā ) as though mounted on a machine.

Māyā may also be visualized as a guise or aspect of the Divine Mother ( Devi ), or Devi Mahamāyā, concept of Hinduism.

Māyā, superimposed on Brahman, the one divine ground and essence of monist Hinduism, is envisioned as one with Laxmi, Durgā, etc.

Queen Māyā giving birth to the Buddha.

In Buddhist tradition, it is said that Queen Māyā of Sakya gave birth to Gautama Buddha under a sal tree or an asoka tree in a garden in Lumbini, in south Nepal, while grasping its branch.

He rules the world with His Māyā — His divine power.

" Māyā " means " illusion " or " enchantment " in Sanskrit and Pāli.

Māyā married king Śuddhodana ( Pāli: Suddhodana ), the ruler of the Śākya clan of Kapilvastu.

Queen Māyā and King Suddhodhana did not have children for twenty years into their marriage.

The cosmic Māyā is what makes Brahman the cause of this Universe.

So the Mahāvākya says that Brahman minus its Māyā and Atman minus its avidyā are identical.

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Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.

When she became her godly form " Her hair's ambrosia breathed a holy fragrance.

Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek ( Androméda ) or ( Andromédē ): " ruler of men ", from ( anēr, andrós ) " man ", and medon, " ruler ".

Her example of love is considered to be beyond the understanding of material realm as it surpasses any form of selfish love or lust that is visibile in the material world.

Her mother would swat her with a hairbrush as a form of discipline.

Guru Arjan, Nanak V, says, " God is beyond colour and form, yet His / Her presence is clearly visible " ( GG, 74 ), and " Nanak's Lord transcends the world as well as the scriptures of the east and the west, and yet He / She is clearly manifest " ( GG, 397 ).

When the general election of 2010 produced a hung parliament, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties agreed to form Her Majesty's current coalition government, the first in seventy years.

Under this form of government, called the Westminster System, the Sovereign is Head of State and titular head of Her Majesty's Government.

Her Majesty the Queen Majesty the King has asked me to form a government and I have accepted .|

The monarch appoints a Prime Minister as the head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, guided by the strict convention that the Prime Minister should be the member of the House of Commons most likely to be able to form a Government with the support of that House.

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Her nearest Roman equivalent, Vesta, had similar functions as a divine personification of Rome's " public " and domestic hearths, including those of her colonies ; and Vesta's cults bound Romans together in the form of an extended family.

It was performed in Edinburgh in 1974 and in a revised form at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1977.

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Her supposed Mustique indiscretions form an important part of the background of the quasi-historical 2008 film The Bank Job.

Her long poem The Way of All the Earth or Woman of Kitezh ( Kitezhanka ) was published in complete form in 1965.

Her lyrics are composed of short fragments of simple speech that do not form a logical coherent pattern.

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Her folded hands form the front corner of the pyramid.

By exhorting Mahamāyā to release Her illusory hold on Vishnu, Brahma is able to bring Vishnu to aid him in killing two demons, Madhu and Kaitabh, who have manifested from Vishnu's sleeping form.

Her associations with hawks, lions, and the very stone of the wild, mountainous Anatolian landscape, suggest her as mother of the land and its wild, untrammeled nature, with power to dominate, moderate or soften its latent ferocity, and control its potential threats to a settled, civilised life ; thus, her enrollment as a protective goddess of the state by Anatolian elites, possibly concurrent with some form of ruler-cult.