The Development of Hindu Iconography c7.91

c7.91

Brahmā, the first member of the orthodox Brahmanical triad: the beginnings of the concept, 510-11; development of the god-concept in the epic and Purāṇic period, 512-13;—not a success as a cult god, 513; some early and late mediaeval Brahmā shrines, 514-15. Textual descriptions of the Brahmā image, 516-17; some images of the god, mostly of a subsidiary character, 517-19.