BRAHILOT, IBRXTT:, or Innart.s., is a free port of the Danubian principalities, on the left bank of the Danube, about 99 m. from its mouth, and the chief shipping port in Wallachia, whence largo quantities of corn and other products are exportssi.. The stur geon fisheries on the Danube are a source of conisderable profit to B. A railway from Galatz to B., thence to Bucharest, was completed in 1873. Pop. about 30,000. During the war of 1854-1850, B. was occupied by Russian troops.
131tAliXA. In the religion and philosophy of the Hindus. this word has two mean ins. The crude or underlined form is/wait/nate the etymologieal synitleation of which is ; when declined as a neuter noun, it has the nominative bralima (With the final sellable short); as a masculine, it is brahme (with then long). (neuter) designates the universal spirit. the ground and cause of all existence; which is not, how. ever. conceived as no individual personal deity to be i worshiped. but only 8.3 an object of contemplation. It is spoken of as " thnt whirl' is ns•Bible, tinsel/a wible, thout ori-in, without either color, eve, or ear, eternal. manifold ereatptil, all-pervadmg, undecarb r ' The wise behold it as the cause of created beings. be humen soul is a portion of this universal spirit, and a man can only be freed from transmigration, and be reunited to Brahma, by getting a correct notion of it and of the soul.—DuArrmI(mas culine) is one of the three chief gods of the Hindu pantheon, and is especially associated with the function of creation. See TRIMURTI. Yet he himself is a creation of or ema nation from Brahma. the first cause. The origin of Brahma, and the way in which he
created heaven and earth, is thus narrated by 3Ianu: "This universe was enveloped in darkness, unperceived, nndistingnishable, unknow able, as it were entirely sunk in sleep. Then the irresistible self-existing lord, undis cerned, causing this universe with the five elements, and all other things, to become discernible, was manifested, dispelling the gloozn. He who is beyond the cognizance of r the senses, subtile, 'indiscernible himself, shone forth. He, desiring, seeking to produce various creatures from his own body, first created the waters, and deposited in them a seed. This [seed] became a golden egg, resplendent as the sun, in which he himself was born as Brahma, the progenitor of all the worlds. Being formed by that first cause, undisccrnible, eternal, which is both existent and non-existent, that male (paruslia) is known in the world as Brahma. That lord having continued a year in the egg, divided it into two parts by /:`s mere thought. With these two shells he formed the heavens and the earth; and in the middle he placed the sky, the eight regions, and the eternal abode of the waters."—See Dr. J. 3luir's Original .6'anslcrit.Te.rts, vol. iv., 31.
In later times at least, 13 has had few special worshipers; the only spot where he is periodically adored being at Pushkara in ltajputana. Ile sometimes receives a kind of secondary homage along with other deities. 13. is represented with four heads. Sec INDIA (section ou Religion), TRIMURTI, VISHNU, SIVA.