Brahma

About Brahma

Brahma is surname used by Boros of Assam. This surname was taken by followers of Brahma religion founded by Kalicharan Brahma.

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Brahma is surname used by Boros of Assam. This surname was taken by followers of Brahma religion founded by Kalicharan Brahma.

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Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 99.3% of all known bearers of the surname Brahma were residents of India. The frequency of the surname was higher than national average in only one state:

Assam (1: 105)

Notable people

Bineswar Brahma, academic.

Chandan Brahma, 21st century politician and cabinet minister.

Harishankar Brahma - 19th Chief Election Commissioner of India.

Kalicharan Brahma (1860–1938), social reformer.

Kameshwar Brahma, president of Bodo Sahitya Sabha.

Madaram Brahma (1903–1990), poet.

Maneswar Brahma, 21st century politician

Nirmal Kumar Brahma, 21st century politician.

Pramila Rani Brahma (born 1951), Bodo politician and social worker.

Prem Singh Brahma (1952–2007), former leader of Bodo Liberation Tigers Force turned politician.

Rupnath Brahma (1902–1968), politician.

Sobha Brahma (1929–2012), painter and sculptor.

Sukumar Brahma, electrical engineer and professor.

Upendranath Brahma (1956–1999), social activist.

Urkhao Gwra Brahma (born 1963), politician and poet.

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Notable quotes

“God creates the world as Brahma, sustains it as Vishnu, and destroys it as Shiva. One day, Shiva started to sing. Vishnu was so moved by the melody that he began to melt. Brahma caught the molten Vishnu in a pot. This was poured on earth. it took the form of the river Ganga. The Ganga nourished the earth. to bathe in the Ganga’s waters is to bathe in God.”
— Anonymous, , Ch. 110: Ganga Mahatmyya; in: Devdutt Pattanaik, Myth = Mithya (Penguin Books India, 2008), p. 6
“When Rintrah gave Abstract Philosophy to Brahma in the East.”
— William Blake, , as quoted in S. Londhe, A Tribute to Hinduism (2008)
“In the pre-Vedic period the Hindu system of medicine is said to have originated from Lord Brahma, the fountainhead of all learning. Brahma passed on this knowledge of life to Indra through Daksha Prajapati and Ashwins. This story is constant in several texts.”
— Sharadini Arun Dahanukar, Urmila Mukund Thatte, Ayurveda Revisited (Popular Prakashan, 2000), p. 11
“I am a sinner and you are a sinner, but someday the sinner will be Brahma again, will someday attain Nirvana, will someday become a Buddha. Now this 'someday' is illusion; it is only a comparison.”
— Hermann Hesse, quoted in: in Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (New Directions, 1962), p. 24
“Since first she lisped the mighty Brahmah’s name!”
— Captain Thomas Skinner, "The Suttee" in Excursions in India, Vol. 2 (2nd ed., 1833)
“Brahmananda Purana, has declared in twelve thousand two hundred verses, the magnificence of the egg of Brahma, and in which an account of the future Kalpa is contained, as was revealed by Brahma. It is usually considered to be in much the same predicament as Skanda, no longer procurable in a collective body, but represented by a variety of Khandas and Mahatmyas, professing to be derived from it.”
— H. H. Wilson, Oriental Translation Fund, Vol. 52 (1840), p. liv

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