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Brahm, Brahma|brɑːm, ˈbrɑːmə|
Also Brahme.
[ad. Skr. Brahmā, masc., Brahma, neut., nom. of Brahman.]
a. The supreme God of post-Vedic Hindu mythology.
b. In the later pantheistic systems, the Divine reality, of which the entire universe of matter and mind is only a manifestation. Hence ˈBrahmahood, the state of Brahma; absorption into the divine essence.
1785Wilkins tr. Bhagvat viii. 55 Brahm is that which is supreme and without corruption. 1827Colebrooke Misc. Ess. (1837) I. 339 While a man sleeps without dreaming, his soul is with Brahme. 1840H. H. Wilson Vishnu Purána 284 Sages who are the sons of Brahmá, or Brahmans. 1862F. Hall Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 194 When the soul..becomes convinced, that..itself is Brahma..it escapes from further vicissitude, and realizes Brahmahood. |