"Brama" Quotes from Famous Books
... idolatry does or did prevail. The sacred images of the Tartars, Japanese, and Indians are almost all placed upon it, of which numerous instances occur in the publication of Kaempfer, Sonnerat, etc: The Brama of India is represented sitting upon a lotus throne, and the figures upon the Isaic table hold the stem of this plant, surmounted by the seed vessel in one hand, and the cross representing the male organs in the other: ...![](http://www.free-translator.com/rquot.gif) — The God-Idea of the Ancients - or Sex in Religion • Eliza Burt Gamble |