Odisha remembers Brahma as a guest who kept his word. When Lingaraj, the Shiva of Bhubaneswar, was crowned, Brahma attended, and when asked to remain he made a promise instead: every year in the month of Chaitra, on the eighth day called Ashokashtami, he would come back and take the reins of Lingaraj's chariot. The small fifteenth-century temple beside the Bindusagar tank, built in the Gajapati period in late Kalingan style, houses him for that purpose, a four-armed black stone Brahma holding the Vedas, a water-pot and a rosary, one hand raised in reassurance. A second Odia Brahma temple, rebuilt in the twelfth century, stands at Niali in Cuttack district.
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The sage Atri and his wife Anasuya earn great merit through their conduct and austerity.
A seven-metre three-faced bust fills the south wall of Elephanta's Cave 1.
Three Pallava shrines on one platform: Shiva in the centre, Vishnu on the right, and a disputed left shrine read as Brahma by Vogel but as Subrahmanya or Brahmasasta by later scholars; a Durga panel stands beside.
Before the gods there are only the primordial waters.
A golden egg forms in the waters and glows like the sun.
During the dissolution Vishnu lies on the serpent Ananta in the cosmic waters.
Shiva alone exists before the world.