See All Of Lotus Sculpture's Brahma Statues. Although Brahma is one of the Trinity, his popularity is no match to that of Vishnu and Shiva. [3] Although Brahma is part of the Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva Trimurti, ancient Hindu scriptures mention multiple other trinities of gods or goddesses which do not include Brahma. [43][44][45], Brahma is traditionally depicted with four faces and four arms. Another legend says that Brahma was born in water. He is shown as having four arms, with none holding a weapon, unlike most other Hindu Gods. [citation needed]. The Bhagavata Purana includes a story wherein the Brahma of our universe is called by Krishna to meet with the Brahmas of other worlds, some of which have many more than four heads, counting into the many thousands in some instances for Brahma's in control of universes much larger than our own. David Leeming (2009), Creation Myths of the World, 2nd Edition. PK Acharya, A summary of the Mānsāra, a treatise on architecture and cognate subjects, PhD Thesis awarded by Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, published by BRILL. [34] The primary creator is extensively discussed in Vedic cosmogonies with Brahman or Purusha or Devi among the terms used for the primary creator,[34][35] while the Vedic and post-Vedic texts name different gods and goddesses as secondary creators (often Brahma in post-Vedic texts), and in some cases a different god or goddess is the secondary creator at the start of each cosmic cycle (kalpa, aeon). He holds a water-pot, a spoon, a book of prayers or the Vedas, a rosary and sometimes a lotus. Brahma, states Bhagavata Purana, thereafter combines Prakriti (nature, matter) and Purusha (spirit, soul) to create a dazzling variety of living creatures, and tempest of causal nexus. Thus comes one of his names Nabhija (born from the navel). An early 18th-century painting at Wat Yai Suwannaram in Phetchaburi city of Thailand depicts Brahma. [1] He is also known as Svayambhu (self-born),[2] Vāgīśa (Lord of Speech), and the creator of the four Vedas, one from each of his mouths. [13], Later Puranas describe him as emerging from a lotus, connected to the navel of Lord Vishnu. Brahma is usually depicted as having four faces, symbolic of a wide-ranging four-square capacity, as expressed in the four Vedas (collections of poems and hymns), the four yugas (“ages”), the four varnas (social classes), the four directions, the four stages of life (ashramas), and so forth. Brahmā is a leading god (deva) and heavenly king in Buddhism. He is envisioned in some Hindu texts to have emerged from the metaphysical Brahman along with Vishnu (preserver), Shiva (destroyer), all other gods, goddesses, matter and other beings. From the golden egg, Brahma, the creator was born, as Hiranyagarbha. Brahma is seen sitting on the lotus that designates the infinite truth. Brahma is often depicted as having long, white beard, with each of his heads reciting the four Vedas. Nevertheless, most temples dedicated to Shiva or Vishnu contain an image of Brahma. Brahma, due to his elevated status, is less involved in picturesque myths where gods take on human form and character, but is rather a generally abstract or metaphysical ideal of a great god. Lord Brahma is often depicted in a murti (religious statue) along with the Gods Vishnu and Shiva, and this is known as the Trimurti. He often carries a book and prayer beads. 1: A–M, Rosen Publishing. He speaks about the “strong gods” such as Agni the god of fire, and Yama, the god of war (mentioned in the first stanza). Thus, only Vishnu and Shiva continue to be worshipped, while Brahma is almost totally ignored. Chami Jotisalikorn et al (2002), Classic Thai: Design, Interiors, Architecture., Tuttle. [47][48] His four mouths are credited with creating the four Vedas. The others two Hindu Gods in the Trimurti are Vishnu and Shiva. [46] Each face of his points to a cardinal direction. In this he deposited a seed that later became the golden egg. In one hand he holds the sacred texts of Vedas, in second he holds mala (rosary beads) symbolizing time, in third he holds a sruva or shruk — ladle types symbolizing means to feed sacrificial fire, and in fourth a kamandalu – utensil with water symbolizing the means where all creation emanates from. 40, No. These include Sarga (primary creation of universe) and Visarga (secondary creation), ideas related to the Indian thought that there are two levels of reality, one primary that is unchanging (metaphysical) and other secondary that is always changing (empirical), and that all observed reality of the latter is in an endlessly repeating cycle of existence, that cosmos and life we experience is continually created, evolved, dissolved and then re-created.

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