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BRAMA

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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. See the article BRACHMANS, BRAHMS, and INDOSTAN.

in Ichthyology, the trivial name of a species of cyprinus.