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BRAMA

Volume 2 · 54 words · 1778 Edition

or Bruma, a pagan deity of the East Indies. He is the first person of a kind of trinity in their theology; is the great progenitor of mankind; and has created as many worlds as there are considerable parts in his body.

in ichthyology, the trivial name of a species of cyprinus. See Cyprinus.