Brahmasthāna

Brahmasthāna

Brahmasthāna is a name used for more than one place and thing in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.

Places

• Brahmasthāna: “the place of Brahmā“, a holy tīrtha named twice, with no place or account of its own, in the Brahma Purāṇa’s list of the tīrthas and kshetras of the earth. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 25

Things and ideas

• Brahma-sthāna (Homa): the seat of the Brahmā priest at a homa, where Brahmā stood to offer the homa at the wedding of Śiva and Pārvatī. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 36