Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.2538

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(12) Dharmadeva incarnated from the right breast of Brahmā. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 66, Stanza 3).
(13) The hermit Bhṛgu broke open the heart of Brahmā and incarnated from there. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 66, stanza 41).
(14) Śukra turns all the worlds round at the instruction of Brahmā. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 208, Stanza 17).
(15) Brahmā gave boons to two asuras (demons) Sunda and Upasunda. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 208, Stanza 17).
(16) Viśvakarmā created Tilottamā according to the instruction of Brahmā. Brahmā gave her a boon. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 211, Stanza 23).
(17) When Agni suffered from indigestion, Brahmā instructed that the forest Khāṇḍava should be burnt to cure him. (See Agni).
(18) Brahmā made the bow called Gāṇḍīva. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 224, Stanza 19).
(19) At the end of thousand yugas Brahmā performs a grand sacrifice near the holy place Bindusaras on the top of the mountain Hiraṇyaśṛṅga. (M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter 3, Stanza 15).
(20) Brahmā has a divine council. A complete description of this council in Mahābhārata, Sabhā Parva, Chapter 11.
(21) Brahmā cursed Hiraṇyakaśipu and gave him a boon that he would not be killed by any sort of weapons. (M.B. Sabhā 38, Dākṣiṇātya Pāṭha).
(22) Brahmā wears a divine conch for the sake of Indra. (M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter 53, Stanza 14).
(23) Brahmā had erected a Yūpa (a post to which sacrificial animals are tied) near Brahma-saras in Dharmāraṇya. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 34, Stanza 86).
(24) Once Brahmā performed a sacrifice in Prayāga (Allahabad). (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 87, Stanza 17).
(25) Brahmā sang a hymn once for the holy place of Puṣkara tīrtha (M.B. Vanaparva, Chapter 82, Stanza 18).
(26) It was according to the instruction of Brahmā that the devas went to Dadhīca and requested for his bone. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 100, Stanza 8).
(27) Brahmā once performed a sacrifice called ‘Iṣṭikṛta’ at Kurukṣetra. This sacrifice took one thousand years for its completion. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 120, Stanza 1).
(28) The devas (gods) got angry because Brahmā lifted the earth taking the shape of a hog. But Brahmā pacified them. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 142, stanza 45).
(29) Once Brahmā created a city, called Hiraṇyapura, for the asuras (demons) named the Kālakeyas and told them that it would be destroyed by human hands. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 173, Stanza 11).
(30) Brahmā was born from the lotus in the nave of Viṣṇu. (M.B. Vana parva, Chapter 203, Stanza 10).
(31) Brahmā granted a boon to a King named Dhundhu. (See Dhundhu).
(32) Brahmā was the father of Pulastya and the grandfather of Rāvaṇa. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 274, Stanza 11).
(33) Once Brahmā instructed the devas to take birth as monkeys. (M.B. Vana parva, Chapter 376, Stanza 6).
(34) Once Brahmā got angry thinking how to destroy the living creatures which were increasing prolifically. (M.B. Droṇa Parva, Chapter 52, Stanza 46).