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CHAPTER III.

BRAHMA AND SARASVATI.

BRAHMA.

Brahma, the first of the three great Hindu gods, is called the Creator ; he is the father of gods and men,

BRAHMA.

the Vedic Prajāpati, the lord of creatures. As nearly all the writers of the Purānas seem to regard it a duty to describe the work of creation as performed by this god, and as each account differs in detail from the others, it is a perfectly hopeless task to attempt to

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