ORIENTAL SERIES.

$6 BHUTESA BRAHMA.
BHtJTESA, BHUTESWAEA. 'Lord of beings or of
created things.' A name applied to Vishnu, Brahma, and
Enshwa; as 'lord of the Bhutas or goblins/ it is applied to
Siva.
BEUVANESWAEA, A ruined city in Orissa, sacred to
the worship of Siva, and containing the remains of several
temples.
It was formerly called Ekamra-kanana.
BHUVAE. See Yyahriti.
BHUVAE-LOEJL 5Loka
BlBHATSU. l
Loathing.'
An appellation of Arjuna,
BIKDUSAEA, The son and successor of Chandra-gupta,
BEAEIMA, BEAHMAN (neuter). The supreme soul of the
universe, self-existent, absolute, and eternal, from which all things
emanate, and to which all return. This divine essence is incor-
poreal, immaterial, invisible, unborn, uncreated, without begin-
ning and without end, illimitable, and inappreciable by the sense
until the film of mortal blindness is removed It is all-pervading
and infinite in its manifestations, in all nature, animate and in-
animate, in the highest god and in the meanest creature. This
supreme soul receives no worship, but it is the object of that
abstract meditation which Hindu sages practise in order to
obtain absorption into it, It is sometimes called Kala-hansa,
There is a passage in the $atapatha Brahma?ia which represents
Brahma (neut.) as the active creator. See Brahma,
The Veda is sometimes called Brahma.
BEAEMA (masculine). The foist member of the Hindu
triad; the supreme spirit manifested as the active creator of
the universe, He sprang from the mundane egg deposited by
the supreme first cause, and is the Prajapati, or lord and father
of all creatures, and in the first place of the jRishis or Praja-
patis.
When Brahma has created the world it remains unaltered for
one of his days, a period of 2, 160,000,000 years,
The world and
all that is therein is then consumed by fire, but the sages, gods,
and elements survive. When he awakes he again restores crea-
tion, and this process is repeated until his existence of a hundred
years is brought to a close, a period which it requires fifteen
figures to express. When this period is ended he himself expires,
and he and all the gods and sages, and the whole universe are
resolved into their constituent elements. His name is invoked