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...personages mentioned above are all purely Buddhist in origin, but pre-Buddhist divinities are also well represented in the Buddhist sanctuaries of the present day. The very gods whose worship was denounced as useless or reprehensible by Shakyamuni Buddha occupy important positions in a great number of temples. Brahma, the creator, a purely Indian divinity, is worshipped by many present day Buddhists...
Three hundred pure white swans, fat, sluggard, stupid, sacred to the Hindu God Brahma, have been carried immemorially as a heavy and increasing charge on the budget of Jammu & Kashmir, famed Indian dual realm...
Sirs: There are those who, having attained "Oneness with Brahma," would discover soup-stains on that one's waistcoat ; who, sitting on a lotus flower in the selfless Nirvana of Buddha, would find withered petals ; who, wandering deified through the Greek Elysian Fields, would discover a fly in Hebe's nectar; or who, reading that perfect periodical TIME, would stumble over idiosyncrasies...
...program this evening is announced as follows: Novelette in F-sharp minor Schumann Scherzo in A Major Beethoven Rhapsody in B minor Brahma Burlesca Scarlatti Le Carillon de Cynthere Couperin The Little Windmills Couperin Descriptions Automatiques Satie Preludes in A minor and B flat Bach Mazurka in C sharp minor Chopin Prelude Scriabine Prelude in C major Prokofieff March Prokofieff Impromptu in F minor Schubert
...Department of Agriculture set out to become lexicographer and authority in its own field. It issued a list of some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...