Brahma (brä´mə), a god often identified, with Vishnu and Shiva, as one of the three supreme gods in Hinduism. In the late Vedic period he was called Prajapati, the primeval man whose sacrifice permitted the original act of creation. His popularity has declined since the Gupta era (AD 320–550), and today only one temple near modern Ajmer is devoted to him. He is regarded as the creator and is periodically reborn in a lotus that grows from the navel of the sleeping Vishnu. His consort Sarasvati is the patroness of art, music, and letters, and the traditional inventor of the Sanskrit language. The kalpa or "day of Brahma," equal to 4,320,000,000 earthly years, is a basic unit in Hindu chronology. The neuter form of the masculine name Brahma is Brahman.

Brahmā (to be distinguished from Brahman or its alternative Brahma). In Hinduism, a post-Vedic deity. Brahmā is the god of creation and first in the Hindu triad of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva. He is represented as red in colour, with four heads and four arms, the hands holding, respectively, a goblet, a bow, a sceptre, and the Vedas. Today Brahmā is seldom worshipped, and his shrines are few; only two major temples in India are dedicated to him: one at Pushkar, near Ajmere, the other at Khedbrahmā. Nevertheless, Brahmā does figure in both Buddhism and Jainism.

Brahma Creator god in Hinduism, later identified as one of the three gods in the Trimurti. Brahma is usually thought equal to the gods Vishnu and Shiva, but later myths tell of him being born from Vishnu's navel. There is only one major temple to Brahma, located at Pushkar, Rajasthan, nw India.

Brahma the creator god in Hinduism, who forms a triad with Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma was an important god of late Vedic religion, but has been little worshipped since the 5th century ad and has only one major temple dedicated to him in India today.

Brah·ma / ˈbrämə/ 1. the creator god in later Hinduism, who forms a triad with Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer. 2. another term for Brahman (sense 2).

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