And His mother was Jijabai. Shivaji"`s early life was filled with struggles, especially when his father remarried and left him and his mother in the care of Brahmanas, particularly Dadaji Khondev.

And Brahma has some subtle and not-so-subtle differences with Brahman, Brahmin, and Brahmanas. Brahma is a male deity who "creates but neither preserves nor destroys anything". Brahmin is a varna in ...