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When her little friends asked her what her name was, her father replied that it was Conchita - his diminutive for Maria de la Concepción. "Con-what?" they would ask again, aware, apparently, thatcon in French is a fool, an idiot. So her parents started calling her Maria, which from the little girl's lips soon began to sound likeMaya. "Maya!" exclaimed her father. "It's perfect. It means the greatest illusion on earth." SoMaya it was from then on -Maya Walter.
Eventually, Pran and Savita decided by correspondence onMaya. Its two simple syllables meant, among other things: the goddess Lakshmi, illusion, fascination, art, the goddess Durga, kindness, and the name of the mother of Buddha. It also meant: ignorance, delusion, fraud, guile, and hypocrisy; but no one who named their daughterMaya ever paid any attention to those pejorative possibilities. - - - 'Why ever not, Ma?' said Meenakshi.'It's a very Bengali name, a very nice name.'
