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| Sham S. Misri |
Brahma was knocked out of the field of worship on a charge of having
committed adultery with his own daughter. The charge is set out in the Bhagwat
Purana in the following terms:
"We have heard, O Kshatriya, that Swayambhu (Brahma) had a passion
for Vach, his slender and enchanting daughter, who had no passion for him. The
Munis, his sons, headed by Marichi, seeing their father bent upon wickedness,
admonished him with affection; 'This is such a thing as has not been done by
those before you, nor will those after you do it,— that you, being the lord,
should sexually approach your daughter, not restraining your passion. This, 0
preceptor of the world, is not a laudable deed even in glorious personages,
through limitation of whose actions men attain felicity. Glory to that divine
being (Vishnu) who by his own lustre revealed this (universe) which abides in
himself, he must maintain ' righteousness '. Seeing his sons, the Prajapatis,
thus speaking before him the lord of the Prajapatis (Bramha) was ashamed, and
abandoned his body. This dreadful body the regions received and it is known as
foggy darkness."
The result of this degrading and defamatory attacks on Brahma was to damn
him completely. No wonder that his cult disappeared from the face of India
leaving him a nominal and theoretical member of the Trimurti.
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