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Brahm¤

Pali MO Hare Horner Punnaji Bodhi Rhys Davids (Mrs)Rhys Davids Thanissaro Walshe Woodward
Brahm¤ God Hare Brahma Punnaji Brahma Rhys Davids (Mrs)Rhys Davids Brahma Walshe Woodward

 

Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary:

Brahm¤: [cp. Vedic brahm¤n, m., one who prays or chants hymns] 1. the god Brahm¤ chief of the gods, often represented as the creator of the Universe...also called Mah¤brahm¤, Sahampati (the name/form used to ask the Buddha to Teach--mo), Sana¸kum¤ra. The duration of his life is given as being 1 kalpa (one full evolution and devolution of the World). 2. a brahma god, a happy and blameless celestial being, an inhabitant of the higher heavens (brahma-loka; in which to be reborn is a reward of great merit)
Brahman: the supreme good; as a buddhistic term used in a sense different from the brahmanic (save in controversy with Brahmans); a state like that of Brahm¤ (or Brahman). 2. Vedic text, mystic formula, prayer
brahma: 1. holy, pious, brahmanic; a holy person, a brahmin, 2. divine, as incorporating the highest and best qualities, sublime, ideal best, very great, 3. holy, sacred, divinely inspired


"The house in which Mother (MA) and Father (PA) are reveranced, beggars is like the house of Brahm¤. Mother and Father are like Brahm¤, Beggars."


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