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  marapajon

 

Thailand

Marapajon, the ‘struggle with Mara’, during the maravijaya, i.e. the ‘victory over Mara’, a scene in the Buddha's life, in which Mae Phra Thoranee, the earth goddess, comes to the aid of the Buddha by wringing water from her long hair and thus flooding the demon Mara and his army. This saved the Buddha from the temptation of desire.

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