BRAHMA, the supreme god of the Indians. In Hindustani, the word is a neuter noun, derived by grammarians from the verb bril to grow, and the suffix man, and thus means that which grows, or the Supreme Being regarded under the aspect of development, and revealed by the creation of worlds. The word is used, however, in a secondary sense also, and means the Supreme Absolute Spirit, not regarded as a creative force, but shut up in himself, without external manifestations of any kind.