What is "marici"

In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, Marici is a deva or bodhisattva associated with light and the sun. She is known as Molizhitian (摩利支天) or Molizhitian Pusa (摩利支天菩萨) in China, in Japan, and Odzer Canma in Tibet. She is one of the 20 (or 24) Celestials (二十/二十四諸天). In Taoism and Chinese folk religion, Marici is known under the epithet of the Lady of Dipper Mother or Doumu, a name sometimes used by Buddhists.

Marici may refer to:

• Marici (Ligures), a Ligurian people of Gallia Transpadana
• Marici, Buddhist deity
• Marichi, masculine Sanskrit term for one of the Saptarshis

The Marici were a Ligurian people. In the Third Book of his Natural History Pliny the Elder identifies them as the co-founders, along with the Laevi, of Ticinum, the modern Pavia.