“Sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ, rātriṁ yuga-sahasrāntāṁ te 'ho-rātra-vido janāḥ” – Bhagavad Gita 8.17 (“Those who understand the cosmic day and night know that one day of Brahma lasts ...

In the vast tapestry of Hindu cosmology, Brahma occupies a paradoxical place. He is the Creator, the architect of universes, the source of birth for all that is manifest. Yet, unlike Vishnu (the ...