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Bhad Bhabie
Bhad Bhabie, real name Danielle Peskowitz Bregoli (born 2003), is an American rapper from Boynton Beach, Florida, who went viral on Dr. Phil in 2016 ('Cash me outside'), became the youngest female rap artist to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 with 'These Heaux', signed with Atlantic Records, and released the mixtape 15.
Bhaddā Kāpilānī
Bhaddā Kāpilānī (भद्दा कापिलानी) was an early Buddhist nun and former wife of Mahā-Kassapa, whom the Buddha declared foremost among nuns in recollecting past lives.
Bhadda Kundalakesi
Bhadda Kundalakesa, also known as Bhadda Kundalakesi, was an early Buddhist elder nun and former Jain, converted after a debate with Sariputta and remembered in five Therigatha verses.
Bhaddaji
Bhaddaji (भद्दजि) was an early Buddhist monk and disciple of the Buddha, remembered for answering Ānanda's five 'best' questions in Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.170 and for a legend of raising a golden palace from the Ganges.
Bhaddāli
Bhaddāli (भद्दालि), nicknamed Mahāchātaka, was a Buddhist monk of the Buddha's time who refused a training rule, avoided the Buddha for a Rains retreat, and was forgiven.
Bhaddasala
Bhaddasala (भद्दसाल) was the general of King Nanda's army who fought Chandragupta in the war recorded in the Milindapanha, ending the Nanda dynasty of Magadha around 321 BC.
Bhadeswar Mound
Bhadeswar Mound (भादेश्वर): two ancient mounds north of Bhadeshwar village, Birbhum, West Bengal; ASI centrally protected monument, notified 1925, tied to legend of King Bhadrasana's palace.
Bhadla Solar Park
Bhadla Solar Park is a 2,245 MW solar power complex in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India, among the largest solar parks in the world.
Bhadra (భద్ర) (2005 film)
Bhadra (భద్ర) is a 2005 Telugu action film, the directorial debut of Boyapati Srinu, starring Ravi Teja and Meera Jasmine, produced by Dil Raju. Released 12 May 2005, it earned a ₹14.7 crore share and was remade as Saravana and Josh.
Bhadrabahu
Bhadrabahu (भद्रबाहु) was a Jain monk revered by both major orders as the last knower of the complete early Jain scriptures, traditionally dated c. 367 – c. 298 BC.
Bhadrachala Ramadasu
Bhadrachala Ramadasu (భద్రాచల రామదాసు), born Kancherla Gopanna, was a 17th-century Telugu saint-composer and Golconda revenue official who built the Bhadrachalam Rama temple and spent 12 years in prison for it.
Bhadradri power station
Bhadradri power station, also known as Bhadradri Thermal Power Station or BTPS, is a 1,080 MW coal-fired plant at Manuguru in Telangana, India, owned by TSGENCO.
Bhadragaka
Bhadragaka (भद्रगक), also Bhadraka or Gandhabhaka, was a village headman of Uruvelakappa and lay interlocutor of the Buddha, featured in the Bhadraka Sutta on desire as the root of suffering.
Bhadrakali (भद्रकाली)
Bhadrakali (भद्रकाली), "auspicious Kali", is a fierce yet protective Hindu goddess form, central in Kerala as Bhagavati with the Darika-slaying myth, the 16th-century Bhadrakali Mahatmya, and major temples at Kodungallur, Kurukshetra, Warangal, Nashik, and Ahmedabad.
Bhadrakali Mound
Bhadrakali Mound (Ancient Mounds, Bhadrakali, N-RJ-48) is an ASI-protected archaeological mound at Bhadrakali, Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, on the dry Ghaggar bed, yielding Harappan, Late Harappan, and early historical wares including Rang Mahal ware, with a temple still in use.
Bhadrambhadra
Bhadrambhadra (ભદ્રંભદ્ર) is a 1900 Gujarati satirical novel by Ramanbhai Neelkanth, the first humorous and first first-person Gujarati novel. Its pompous, Sanskritized hero became a byword for religious rigidity.
Bhadrāvati, Karnataka
Bhadravati (ಭದ್ರಾವತಿ), Karnataka city on the Bhadra River in Shivamogga district; home of Visvesvaraya Iron & Steel Plant (SAIL, founded 1918, pig iron 1923) and Mysore Paper Mills; 151,102 residents (2011).
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel (born 1990, Gujarat, India) is an FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive wanted for the April 12, 2015 murder of his wife Palak at a Dunkin' Donuts in Hanover, Maryland; he fled, was last known near Newark, and carries a $1 million reward.
Bhaga
Bhaga (भाग) was the king's customary share of agricultural produce in ancient India, typically one-sixth of the harvest, the shadbhaga or king's sixth, prescribed in the Dharmashastra literature.
Bhagabata Tungi
A Bhagabata Tungi, also called a Bhagabata Ghara, is a village community house in Odisha where Jagannath Das's Odia Bhagabata is worshipped and read aloud.
Bhagabati Charan Panigrahi
Bhagabati Charan Panigrahi (1908–23 October 1943) was an Odia writer, editor, and political organizer who founded the Nabajuga Sahitya Samsad and pioneered communism in Odisha.
Bhāgalpur (district)
Bhāgalpur district (भागलपुर जिला), Bihar, on the Ganges' south bank; headquarters Bhagalpur city, the Silk City. 2,569 sq km, 3,037,766 people (2011), 3 subdivisions, 16 blocks; ancient Anga, Vikramshila University, Tussar silk.
Bhagalpur (भागलपुर)
Bhagalpur (भागलपुर), the Silk City of Bihar on the Ganges, is a divisional headquarters famous for Tussar silk (GI-registered) and the ruins of Vikramshila University; district population 3,037,766 (2011).
Bhagam Bhag (भागम भाग)
Bhagam Bhag (भागम भाग) is a 2006 Hindi comedy thriller directed by Priyadarshan, starring Akshay Kumar, Govinda, Paresh Rawal, and Lara Dutta; released 22 December 2006, theatre troupe in London, drug dealers and murder mystery.
Bhagat Singh (ਭਗਤ ਸਿੰਘ)
Bhagat Singh (ਭਗਤ ਸਿੰਘ), HSRA revolutionary and atheist writer in colonial India, contrasted with Gandhi's non-violence; left college for the Non-cooperation movement, criticized Congress as middle-class, defended atheism, and became a lasting popular icon.
Bhagat Singh Koshyari (भगत सिंह कोश्यारी)
Bhagat Singh Koshyari (भगत सिंह कोश्यारी), Indian BJP leader born 1942 in Bageshwar, Uttarakhand; second Chief Minister of Uttarakhand (2001–02), Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha member, and Governor of Maharashtra 2019–2023; Padma Bhushan 2026.
Bhagat Singh Sukhdev Rajguru
Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru were HSRA revolutionaries hanged in Lahore in 1931 for the 17 December 1928 shooting of police official Saunders and related anti-colonial actions, commemorated on Shaheed Diwas, 23 March.
Bhagatrav
Bhagatrav is a small Sorath Harappan settlement on the estuary of the Kim creek in Bharuch district, Gujarat, India, first occupied from 2200 BCE and reexcavated in 2015.
Bhagavad Gita (भगवद्गीता)
The Bhagavad Gita (भगवद्गीता) is a 700-verse Sanskrit dialogue between the god Krishna and the warrior Arjuna, embedded in the Mahabharata and counted among the foundational texts of Vedanta.
Bhagavadajjukam
Bhagavadajjukam, also rendered Bhagavadajjuka, is a 7th-century Sanskrit farce usually attributed to Bodhayana, whose plot turns on the exchange of souls between a wandering ascetic and the courtesan Vasantasena.