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Brahm¤

References:

Mulapariyaya Resources section of BuddhaDust
PTS: Middle Length Sayings I, #1: Discourse on the Synopsis of Fundamentals, Horner, trans., pp 3.
WP: Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: The Root of All Things, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., pp 83 Examining the Mulapariyaya -- Analysis

The Root Sequence, Bhikkhu Thanissaro, translation of the Mulapariyaya

Pali MO Hare Horner Punnaji Bodhi Rhys Davids (Mrs)Rhys Davids Thanissaro Walshe Woodward
Brahm¤ Brahma, God Brahma Brahma Brahma Brahma Brahma Brahma Brahma Brahma

 

Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):

Brahm¤: [cp. Vedic brahm¤n, m., one who prays or chants hymns] 1. the god Brahm¤ chief of the gods, often represented as the creator of the Universe...also called Mah¤brahm¤, Sahampati (the name/form used to ask the Buddha to Teach--mo), Sana¸kum¤ra. The duration of his life is given as being 1 kalpa (mo: one full evolution and devolution of the World). 2. a brahma god, a happy and blameless celestial being, an inhabitant of the higher heavens (brahma-loka; in which to be reborn is a reward of great merit)
Brahman: the supreme good; as a buddhistic term used in a sense different from the brahmanic (save in controversy with Brahmans); a state like that of Brahm¤ (or Brahman). 2. Vedic text, mystic formula, prayer
brahma: 1. holy, pious, brahmanic; a holy person, a brahmin, 2. divine, as incorporating the highest and best qualities, sublime, ideal best, very great, 3. holy, sacred, divinely inspired

 

PED on Line (no diacriticals): "Brahma"
PED on Line (unicode font required): "Brahma"

 


"The house in which Mother (MA) and Father (PA) are reveranced, beggars is like the house of Brahm¤. Mother and Father are like Brahm¤, Beggars."


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