Immense numbers of wealthy men go every year from the most distant parts of India to die at Benares, where they spend large sums of money among the Brahmans.

It is by their means that this, the second city in India, is supported.

[W.

H.S.] Bombay is now the second city in India, so far as population is concerned.
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Brahma, with the short vowel, is the eternal Essence or Spirit; Brahma, with the long vowel, is 'the primaeval male god, the first personal product of the purely spiritual Brahma, when overspread by Maya, or illusory creative force', according to the Vedanta system (Monier Williams, _Religious Thought and Life in India_, p.