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  • What's the use of education if you let your father lead you like a cow to the Brahma bull?"†   (source)
  • To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust."†   (source)
  • "But I will not speak with Brahma," he said.†   (source)
  • "I acknowledge the truth of what you say," replied Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Await my pleasure," said Brahma, "singing the while various appropriate verses from the Vedas."†   (source)
  • "Unless I have been described to them by Brahma or his priest," said the prince.†   (source)
  • "This is as it should be," said Brahma, "if one is to be a god who was, is and always shall be."†   (source)
  • The knowledge of Brahma's passing will be kept to as small a group as possible.†   (source)
  • "Mankind has always sought release through drink," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • You feel that you do not really know whether you want Brahma dead or alive.†   (source)
  • He lifted Brahma then in his arms and began walking back toward the city.†   (source)
  • "Then, to answer your questions," said Brahma, "it is because they are not ready for it.†   (source)
  • "We could have used you here," said Brahma, "in our hydroponics section.†   (source)
  • Brahma, who lay beside Nirriti, tore off his harness, which had been soaked with demon repellant.†   (source)
  • Prince Siddhartha stopped on the Street of the Smiths, on his way to the Temple of Brahma.†   (source)
  • Then know that the one who was known as Durga now wears the body of Brahma, chief among our enemies.†   (source)
  • I gather that our guest mocked Brahma some years ago in Mahartha and did violence in holy places.†   (source)
  • Would you like my guarantee that Brahma will die?†   (source)
  • Brahma stood, considered the mirrors, considered Vishnu.†   (source)
  • Brahma could be a merciful god this week.†   (source)
  • Brahma and the Black One then faced one another on foot and Ganesha's head rolled into a gully.†   (source)
  • Brahma, I think Nirriti can stop the thunder chariot.†   (source)
  • "Who built you the psych-probe?" asked Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Hear me, Death and Destruction," said Ganesha, "Brahma is dead and only we five now know of it."†   (source)
  • It seems you are drawing a mighty fine line at that point, Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Brahma agreed, "as mighty as might be desired.†   (source)
  • Trimurti rules-that is, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.†   (source)
  • He was also known as Brahma the Infallible.†   (source)
  • Brahma, too, I think-and there are many others.†   (source)
  • "The Buddha has gone to nirvana," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Come down, Sam!" said Brahma, moving it slightly so that the pains shifted and burned.†   (source)
  • Burning, Brahma …. the whole warehouse district!†   (source)
  • Brahma's hand moved toward the shutoff switch, then paused.†   (source)
  • Brahma drew himself up to full height and glared.†   (source)
  • After you have rested, I suggest you lodge a protest at Brahma's reading room.†   (source)
  • Brahma, Vayu, Mara and four demigods stood below in the street.†   (source)
  • "That one wanted Kilbar," said Brahma, "and tried to make it Kilbar.†   (source)
  • "Arise …. priest," said Brahma, having forgotten his name.†   (source)
  • Then if you love me-and you are truly my lady-then let another be Brahma.†   (source)
  • They did not pause for any purpose, but went directly to the Pavilion of Brahma.†   (source)
  • Brahma held forth upon the Eightfold Path and the glory that is Nirvana.†   (source)
  • Brahma loafed upon the edge of the heated pool, where he bathed with his harem.†   (source)
  • "Mighty is Brahma," said Mara, and turned away.†   (source)
  • Brahma decided it was time to move against Accelerationism.†   (source)
  • Brahma is particularly anxious to see you once again.†   (source)
  • "Is it that you want someone to kill Brahma for you?" asked Sam.†   (source)
  • Brahma, you forget that Nirriti is a fanatic, a madman.†   (source)
  • If Brahma has me burnt, I will spit into the flames.†   (source)
  • He sprang to his feet and raced toward Brahma without stopping to pick up his blade.†   (source)
  • Exactly…… Kali, tell me, would you consider being Brahma, of the golden saddle and silver spurs?†   (source)
  • I will wait upon your return and consider the matter of Brahma's passing.†   (source)
  • Brahma, of the golden saddle and silver spurs, bore a sword, a wheel and a bow.†   (source)
  • Indra drew back, out of range of Brahma's blade, and turned to face him.†   (source)
  • Brahma gasped and his eyes flickered open, but closed again.†   (source)
  • The priest arose, cast a quick glance upon Brahma's dripping person and looked away again.†   (source)
  • "I consider such indecision presumptuous," said Brahma, "when one has just been made such an offer."†   (source)
  • But I am not especially anxious to see Brahma.†   (source)
  • Brahma, mightiest of the four orders of gods and the eighteen hosts of paradise.†   (source)
  • So, whatever Brahma decides, at least I can buy you a drink before it occurs.†   (source)
  • You killed a weak Brahma and a mighty one has replaced him.†   (source)
  • Yama fell to his knees beside Brahma and tied a tourniquet about what remained of his left arm.†   (source)
  • "So you think," said the prince, "served up as an epileptic, by order of Brahma.†   (source)
  • In our three and a half years together, I have given Bud a new trilogy to contemplate: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.†   (source)
  • They had a male killer who weighed roughly a hundred and seventy to two hundred pounds, wore Brahma boots, and drove a Ford F-150 pickup.†   (source)
  • The sinner, which I am and which you are, is a sinner, but in times to come he will be Brahma again, he will reach the Nirvana, will be Buddha—and now see: these 'times to come' are a deception, are only a parable!†   (source)
  • If you continue to move as you have-not consolidating your gains-and you move upon Khaipur, Brahma will not defend it either.†   (source)
  • Vishnu passed from the Garden of Brahma's Joys; and as he departed, the Mistress of Death entered there.†   (source)
  • I see now, Death, why it is that any god-even Brahma-may pass and be succeeded by another-save for yourself.†   (source)
  • Lord Yama received his first; and Brahma, watching the smoke arise from the pyres, wondered where he really was.†   (source)
  • Brahma recommended the transfer, and he would be pleased for me to appear at the wedding party at Milehigh Spire in my new form.†   (source)
  • He probed thirty-seven subjects, all of whom could have had access to Brahma in his Garden during the entire day prior to the deicide.†   (source)
  • Brahma wore a purple crown, studded with pulsating amethysts, and he bore in his right hand a scepter mounted with the nine auspicious gems.†   (source)
  • Near the pool of the purple lotus, in the Garden of Joys, at the foot of the statue of the blue goddess with the veena, Brahma was located.†   (source)
  • Brahma's head fell upon his breast.†   (source)
  • I believe I was either the last to see Brahma alive or the first to see him dead, depending upon what his twitching signified.†   (source)
  • And I will raise it against any of the heavenly horde-saving only Brahma himself, whom I will not face.†   (source)
  • Brahma spun and turned the screaming scepter, holding it with both hands toward the head of the diving Bird.†   (source)
  • Hearing the music, Brahma approached.†   (source)
  • I made myself visible to her and told her that I could not locate Brahma and would return later…… He is dead, isn't he?†   (source)
  • Brahma moved to another part of the pavilion and stood awhile before his wardrobe, deciding what to wear.†   (source)
  • Brahma sprang forward off the throne.†   (source)
  • He raised his scepter then and spoke: "Prepare yourself to receive the curse of Brahma …." he began.†   (source)
  • When Brahma activated the screen within his Pavilion, he saw a man who wore the blue-green turban of Urath.†   (source)
  • Brahma turned a death-gaze upon the Lord of Hellwell, a gaze that drew now upon the force of life itself within him.†   (source)
  • In the distance, Brahma had his knee upon Nirriti's spine and was bending his head backward, against the power of the black armor.†   (source)
  • Be sure to phrase it just so, especially to the priests of Brahma, who may become concerned as to my whereabouts in days to come.†   (source)
  • Sam did this, and when he looked up again, Brahma was seated upon a high throne carved of red marble, with a matching parasol flared above it.†   (source)
  • Brahma entered the pavilion and crossed to the screen of crystal, about which a bronze Naga twisted, tail in teeth.†   (source)
  • This was when Lord Indra leapt down from the back of his slizzard and raised his sword Thunderbolt against Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Of the four orders of gods and the eighteen hosts of Paradise, mightiest is Brahma," said the priest.†   (source)
  • Give Nirriti the first city he attacks, to observe his means of offense and assess his strength-if he can persuade Brahma to hold back.†   (source)
  • "Ganesha, Vishnu and the new Brahma have already approached Agni, to fill the place of the Destroyer," said Kubera.†   (source)
  • Tell him that all-hearing Brahma hears all, and direct him to pray to me in the ordinary manner, in the Temple proper!†   (source)
  • Heaven must never be without a Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Where is the priest?" asked Brahma.†   (source)
  • Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu regarded regarded regarded Brahma Brahma Brahma … They sat in the Hall of Mirrors.†   (source)
  • Ganesha fell beneath the blade of Olvegg, as he was attempting to backstab Brahma, who had closed with Nirriti upon a hillock.†   (source)
  • "That is different," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • Brahma, Mara, and two demigods named Bora and Tikan were the only ones who remained to bear Sam and Yama from the dying city of Keenset by the river Vedra.†   (source)
  • Brahma ended the transmission.†   (source)
  • "Mighty is Brahma," she replied.†   (source)
  • The fool saith in his mind that his thoughts are only thoughts … Saraha (98-99) During the time that followed the death of Brahma, there came upon the Celestial City a period of turmoil.†   (source)
  • "Think not less of me in my omniscience," said Brahma, stifling a yawn with his scepter, "if I admit to having, for the moment, forgotten these figures."†   (source)
  • Within the shadow of the forest, at the peak of a high hill, Brahma sat, like a statue of a god mounted upon a gargoyle, staring downward into Mahartha.†   (source)
  • You were offered godhood some years ago in Mahartha, as I recall, and you mocked Brahma, raided the Palace of Karma, and filled all the pray-machines of the city with slugs ….†   (source)
  • There on the hill, Brahma parried Thunderbolt again and again, blood spurting from the stump of his severed left arm and streaming from wounds of the head and chest.†   (source)
  • Brahma used it for a long while.†   (source)
  • "After a fashion," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Brahma only knows," he replied.†   (source)
  • Brahma studied Sam, who was wearing dark jodhpurs, a sky-blue khameez, the blue-green turban of Urath and an empty scabbard upon a chain belt of dark iron.†   (source)
  • But there no longer is a Brahma.†   (source)
  • Heaven cannot be without a Brahma.†   (source)
  • Who might have killed Brahma?†   (source)
  • It appeared from the lithe physical specimen seated upon his own mount that Brahma had bargained in good faith, authorizing for his use an excellent and sturdy body, which was now possessed by the ancient Shan.†   (source)
  • "I have thought much upon it," said Kubera, "and I believe that in the case of Brahma it must have been someone with whom he was sufficiently familiar to have taken refreshment, and in the case of Shiva, someone well enough known to have surprised him.†   (source)
  • You will report to the Hall of Karma in their company, to claim there the body which Brahma has promised you without the necessity of prior judgment You will remain Siddhartha throughout the transfer, and you will return here in the company of your retainers, to be examined by me.†   (source)
  • Taraka knew he would search, wait, do anything, for however long it took, until that day he stared into the black fires that burn behind the eyes of Death…… Brahma stared at the map, then looked back to the screen of crystal, about which a bronze Naga twisted, tail in teeth.†   (source)
  • It was almost as if sex were a thing that transcended biology; and no matter how hard he tried to suppress the memory and destroy that segment of spirit, Brahma had been born a woman and somehow was woman still.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Lord?" asked Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Thirty-six," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • Bless me and hear me, Brahma!†   (source)
  • She told Brahma's First Concubine, who went to see for herself, agreed that her Lord was indeed dead, addressed the statue of the blue goddess, who immediately began playing upon the veena, and then sent messages to Vishnu and Shiva to come at once to the Pavilion.†   (source)
  • But when you come to Kilbar, your forces weakened from the battles for the first three cities and from these, our raids along the way, then will Brahma strike with the full might of Heaven, that you may go down to defeat before the walls of Kilbar.†   (source)
  • Brahma must needs be a man.†   (source)
  • "We have won," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • Brahma had asked.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • That's Brahma," he said.†   (source)
  • Finally, Brahma chuckled.†   (source)
  • Yes, Brahma.†   (source)
  • What will Brahma do.†   (source)
  • Lord Brahma.†   (source)
  • "Sam?" said Brahma.†   (source)
  • Lord Brahma.†   (source)
  • …High Heaven and everything beneath it, from whose navel springs forth a lotus and whose hands churn the oceans-he, who in three strides encompasses all the worlds, the drum of whose glory strikes terror into the hearts of his enemies, upon whose right hand is the wheel of the law, who tethers catastrophes, using a snake for rope — Brahma was to feel more and more uncomfortable and distraught in the days that came to pass as a result of the promise rashly given to the Mistress of Death.†   (source)
  • "True," said Brahma.†   (source)
  • Brahma shrugged.†   (source)
  • I believe Brahma is dead.†   (source)
  • Some say Brahma-†   (source)
  • Brahma.†   (source)
  • Does it concern Brahma?†   (source)
  • Then he doubted whether his message could be communicated, and he thought to retain the wisdom for himself; but the god Brahma descended from the zenith to implore that heshould become the teacher of gods and men.†   (source)
  • Brahma, Visnu, and Siva with Their Consorts (painted miniature, India, early nineteenth century A.D.).†   (source)
  • After the seventh century B.C., Brahma, declining in importance, became merely the creative agent of Visnu.†   (source)
  • They retired in confusion to consult together, and addressed themselves to the high divinities Brahma and Visnu.†   (source)
  • Brahma, Visnu, and giva, respectively Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer, constitute a trinity in Hinduism, as three aspects of the operation of the one creative substance.†   (source)
  • Compare the Kausitaki Upani, ad, 1:4, describing the hero who has reached the Brahma-world: 'Iv,— . is one driving a chariot looks down upon the two chariot wheel,,, thus he looks down upi in day and night, thus upon good deeds and evil deeds. and upon all the pairs of oppu,ites.†   (source)
  • …their streamers fly to the western rim of the world; likewise those erected on the western rim of the world, to the eastern rim of the world; those erected on the northern rim of the world, to the southern rim of the world; and those erected on the southern rim of the world, to the northern rim of the world; while those erected on the level of the earth let theirs fly until they beat against the Brahma-world; and those of the Brahma-world let theirs hang down to the level of the earth.†   (source)
  • Then, overcome with wonder, his hair standing on end, Arjuna bowed his head to the Lord, joined his palms in salutation, and addressed Him: In Thy body, 0 Lord, I behold all the gods and all the diverse hosts of beings—the Lord Brahma, seated on the lotus, all the patriarchs * The principal text of modern Hindu devotional religiosity: an ethical dialogue of eighteen chapters, appearing in Book VI of the Mahabharata, which is the Indian counterpart of the Iliad. and the celestial…†   (source)
  • And thus they make announcement: "Sirs, after the lapse of a hundred thousand years, the cycle is to be renewed; this world will be destroyed; also the mighty ocean will dry up; and this broad earth, and Sumeru, the monarch of the mountains, will be burnt up and destroyed—up to the Brahma-world will the destruction of the world extend.†   (source)
  • By Brahma! boys, it'll be douse sail soon.†   (source)
  • He might have been called a Life drenched with the wisdom of Brahma—Devotion Incarnate.†   (source)
  • The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma's agency, it descends to the earth.†   (source)
  • Teachers, you must watch her: keep your eyes on her movements, weigh well her words, scrutinise her actions, punish her body to save her soul: if, indeed, such salvation be possible, for (my tongue falters while I tell it) this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut — this girl is — a liar!†   (source)
  • When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma.†   (source)
  • Of these, Brahma is said to have been the author of our race; which, in course of creation, he divided into four castes.†   (source)
  • And now he saw by the heap of shavings still fresh at his feet, that, for him and his work, the former lapse of time had been an illusion, and that no more time had elapsed than is required for a single scintillation from the brain of Brahma to fall on and inflame the tinder of a mortal brain.†   (source)
  • These were fervent Brahmins, the bitterest foes of Buddhism, their deities being Vishnu, the solar god, Shiva, the divine impersonation of natural forces, and Brahma, the supreme ruler of priests and legislators.†   (source)
  • When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became incarnate in…†   (source)
  • I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug.†   (source)
  • In further explanation let me say that Brahm is taught, by the same sacred books, as a Triad—Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.†   (source)
  • By the time he had smoothed and polished the staff Kalpa was no longer the pole-star; and ere he had put on the ferule and the head adorned with precious stones, Brahma had awoke and slumbered many times.†   (source)
  • According to the degrees of omission, my soul went to one of the heavens—Indra's the lowest, Brahma's the highest; or it was driven back to become the life of a worm, a fly, a fish, or a brute.†   (source)
  • Why not learn that, at this age, there were in all earth but two peoples capable of exaltations of the kind referred to—those who lived by the law of Moses, and those who lived by the law of Brahma.†   (source)
  • From them were derived the Upa-Vedas, which, delivered by Brahma, treat of medicine, archery, architecture, music, and the four-and-sixty mechanical arts; the Ved-Angas, revealed by inspired saints, and devoted to astronomy, grammar, prosody, pronunciation, charms and incantations, religious rites and ceremonies; the Up-Angas, written by the sage Vyasa, and given to cosmogony, chronology, and geography; therein also are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, heroic poems, designed for the…†   (source)
  • The Originatress comes, The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld, Florid with blood, pensive, rapt with musings, hot with passion, Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments, With sunburnt visage, with intense soul and glittering eyes, The race of Brahma comes.†   (source)
  • …The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying, On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia, To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal, The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes, Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha, Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors, The wars of Tamerlane,the reign of Aurungzebe, The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the…†   (source)
  • Magnifying and applying come I, Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters, Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson, Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha, In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved, With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image, Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more, Admitting they were alive and did the…†   (source)
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