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The Puranas describe Brahma as the god creating time. [citation needed] They correlate human time to Brahma's time, such as a mahākalpa being a large cosmic period, correlating to one day and one night in Brahma's existence. [46] [citation needed] The stories about Brahma in various Puranas are diverse and inconsistent.
In 2014, Vikram Bhatt made India's first 3D creature horror film entitled Creature 3D in which the creature or demon is a brahmarakshasa - a mutant from Indian mythology. [ 16 ] In July 2016, Zee TV announced the weekly horror based television series titled Brahmarakshas .
'Astra of Brahma') is a celestial weapon (astra) created and owned by the god Brahma along with its more powerful variants: Brahmashirastra, Brahmadanda, and Bhargavastra. [citation needed] It is considered one of the most destructive, powerful, and irresistible weapons mentioned in Hinduism. [citation needed]
The Mahābrahmā, or the Great Brahma, is mentioned in Digha Nikaya as the being who dwells in the upper heaven; a Buddhist student can join him for one kalpa (eon, Brahma-year in Buddhism) after successfully entering the first jhana in the form realm of Buddhist practice. [2] In many Buddhist Suttas/Sutras, Mahabrahma pays visit to the Buddha.
The temple hosts Phra Phikhanesuan (Ganesha), Phra Narai (Narayana, Vishnu), Phra Itsuan (Shiva), Uma, Brahma, Indra (Sakka) and other Hindu deities. [84] The tradition asserts that the Thai Brahmins have roots in Hindu holy city of Varanasi and southern state of Tamil Nadu, go by the title Pandita , and the various annual rites and state ...
Brahma ordered them to aid in the creation, but as manifestations of sattva (purity), and uninterested in worldly life, they refused and instead devoted themselves to God and celibacy, against the wishes of their father. [7] [18] The Bhagavata Purana narrates further that their refusal made Brahma angry and his wrath manifested into the deity ...
Brahma as Prajapati with the same iconographical features of Brahma, a statue from Tamil Nadu A Statue of Brahma as Prajapati at Daksha Prajapati Temple, Banapura, Odisha. Prajapati (Sanskrit: प्रजापति, lit. 'Lord of the people', IAST: Prajāpati) is a Vedic deity of Hinduism and he is a form of Brahma, the creator god. [1] [2] [3]
Brahmā, in a form composed of the quality of foulness, produced hunger, of whom anger was born: and the god put forth in darkness beings emaciate with hunger, of hideous aspects, and with long beards. Those beings hastened to the deity. Such of them as exclaimed, “Oh preserve us!” were thence called Rākṣasas. [5]