Maya Sabha. The inside hall of the palace built by Maya Danava, showing the Inau guration ceremony.

Mahabharata 2.4 Maamuni Mayan (?????? Mamu?i, from Sanskrit maha-mni "great ascetic" is an honori fic title; also called Brahmarishi Mayan, Sangakala Sirpachithan Mamuni Mayan, M ayamuni, Mayendran) Maya also refers to asura Maya Danava (Mayasura) of the Mahabharata who is son o f Diti (wife of Kashyapa a SaptaRisi).[1] He is said to have built the Mayasabha to the Pandavas. MayaAsura is mentioned in Uttar-kn?a of Ramaya?a and here he is told be the son of Diti (wife of Kashyapa a SaptaRisi).[2] Again according to D r. Smith the entire Uttar-kn?a of Ramaya?a to many seems a later interpolation.[3 ] In 2004 Sthapati started construction of a " monument to Mayan near Mamallapuram .[4] Mamuni Mayan is credited with feats ranging from the composition of a primeval " Pranava Veda" to the construction of UFOs. In Tamil national mysticism, Mayans " Pranava Veda" is considered the original Tamil Veda, written some 10,000 years a go in Kumari Kandam, from which the Hindu Vedas are imperfect derivations. Mayan is credited with the authorship of the Mayamata Vastu Shastra as well as t he Aintiram (Aindra, a school of grammar connected with the Tolkappiyam). If the re had been a grammatical treatise called Aintiram, it has been lost, but a text called Mayan's Aintiram dealing with Vastu Shastra was published by Sthapati in 1986, with the support of C. Aranganayakam, Tamil Nadu minister of education, a nd again in 1997 by the "Vaastu Vedic Research Foundation" with English commenta ry by S. P. Sabarathnam. MayaAsura is credited with the Surya Siddhanta,[5] The 29 September 2003 edition of the Deccan Herald had an article on Mayan by R. R.Karnik, The originator of all these ancient sciences is one known as Mayasura of the sam e tribe that constructed the mayasabha of Mahabharata. But the period is that of Ramayana some 16,000 years ago. He is the father of Mandodari and father-in-law of Ravana. One of his niece was Sita, who had married Rama and [by] an error of judgement started the epic war. He was master in many subjects. Some of these a re: Vastu Shastra, Jyotirganita-Surya Siddhanta, Aintiram, ... cartography, fund amental physics, the Brahma principle, the yogashastra etc. His contribution to Aesthetics ... was highly appreciated by late Prof. [Surendra] Barlinge. Some Tamil mysticists think that all of human culture is derived from the "Mayon ic tradition", including that of mesoamerican Maya civilization.[6] Intrigued by the homonymy, G. V. Sthapati visited Central America and "traveled throughout t hat region visiting ancient monuments and meeting with modern Mayan representati ves."