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,
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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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