the Creator; one of the three major deities in the later Hindu pantheon
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any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding
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Brahma \Brah"ma\, n. [See {Brahman}.] 1. (Hindu Myth.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindu gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, {Vishnu}, the Preserver, and {Siva}, the Destroyer.
Note: According to the Hindu religious books, Brahma (with the final a short), or Brahm, is the Divine Essence, the One First Cause, the All in All, while the personal gods, Brahm['a] (with the final a long), Vishnu, and Siva, are emanations or manifestations of Brahma the Divine Essence.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also {Brahmapootra}.
"When you see Brahma cattle grazing on the landscaped grounds of a condominium or see a bulldozer pushing down the frame of an incomplete building, you remember it," says Burnis "Buck" Harnage, the president of the Pasco County bank.
Hindu texts have it that when Brahma was seeking a place for a holy ceremony, he chose Pushkar.
That is a fine aspiration, but it will take many a long hard summer before it can take on Quilmes and Brahma.
Its beginnings lie with Lord Brahma, the creator of the universe in Hindu mythology.
In the 1840s, American sea captains brought back magnificent Cochin chickens and Brahma cocks, and New England farmers mated them with domestic poultry to breed the Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red and New York Wyandotte.
Brahma, foremost in the Hindu trinity of gods, is reverered as the creator of the universe.