Personally speaking, I found it more pleasant to read Hammett than Chandler. Both writers are great, and deliver the best in the prose, character development, settings and all, but I found The Maltese Falcon more interesting than The Big Sleep and Farewell, my Lovely. Hammett's prose is straightforward.
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Brahma, the Creator and First God of Hindu Trinity. Brahma is the source, the seed and the creator of all beings in this world. At the time of creation, he emerged as the first differentiated consciousness (the first ego) from the primal waters (universal consciousness).