page_title: Girimekhala
hierarchical_section_title: Girimekhala
caption_attribution_description: English: Mara failing to tempt Buddha from attaining Enlightenment and also failing to capture the Golden Throne as well. From a wall painting at a monastery in Penang, Malaysia မြန်မာဘာသာ: ဘုရားလောင်းတော်မြတ်သည် အေးမြသာယာသော မဟာဗောဓိပင်အောက် ရှိရွှေပလ္လင် ပေါ်၌ မြတ်ရိတ်သမား ပုဏ္ဏားအထံမှ အလှူခံ ရရှိသော မြက်ရှစ်ဆုပ်ကို ခင်းတော်မူကာ ထက်ဝယ်ဖွဲ့ခွေ ထိုင်နေတော်မူ၍ ငါဘုရား မဖြစ်သမျှ ဤထက်ဝယ်တင် ပလ္လင်ကို မဖျက်တော့အံ ဟုအဓိဌာန်းတရားပွားများ အားထုတ်တော်မူစဉ် အရဟတ္တမဂ်ဉာဏ်နှင့် သဗ္ဗညုတဉာဏ်တည်း ဟူသော တရားထူးတရားမြတ်ကို ရ၍ ဘုရားမဖြစ်မိ အချိန်အနည်းငယ်၏ ရှေအဘို့၌ မာရ်နတ်နှင့် မာရ်နတ်၏ စစ်သည်တို့သည် လက်နက်အမျိုးမျိုး ဖန်ဆင်းစွဲကိုင်ပြီးလျှင် အကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ရာ ဂိရိမေခလာ ဆင်ပြောင်ကြီးကို စီး၍ ရွှေပလ္လင်ကို အရယူရန် ကြိုးပန်းကြလေသည်။
context_page_description: Girimekhala is the elephant that carries Mara in Theravada Buddhism.
context_section_description: Girimekhala (Pali: Girimekhalā) is the elephant that carries Mara in Theravada Buddhism.
caption: Grīmekhalaṃ carries Mara
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