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Bhajan Lal Sharma (भजन लाल शर्मा)
Bhajan Lal Sharma (भजन लाल शर्मा), born 1966 in Bharatpur, is Rajasthan's chief minister since 15 December 2023, a first-time BJP MLA from Sanganer and longtime state party general secretary, distinct from the earlier Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal.
Bhajarangi (ಭಜರಂಗಿ)
Bhajarangi (ಭಜರಂಗಿ), also spelled Bajarangi, is a 2013 Kannada action fantasy film directed by A Harsha, starring Shivarajkumar in a dual role, with Aindrita Ray; a 12 December 2013 release that became a Kannada box-office blockbuster and later spawned Bhajarangi 2 (2021).
Bhaje Vaayu Vegam (భజే వాయు వేగం)
Bhaje Vaayu Vegam (భజే వాయు వేగం) is a 2024 Telugu action crime thriller directed by Prashanth Reddy, starring Kartikeya Gummakonda, Iswarya Menon, and Rahul Tyson; released 31 May 2024, streamed on Netflix from 28 June 2024.
Bhaji on the Beach
Bhaji on the Beach is Gurinder Chadha's 1993 British comedy drama, written by Meera Syal, following British Asian women from Birmingham on a day trip to Blackpool; the first British feature directed by an Asian woman.
Bhakra Dam
Bhakra Dam (भाखड़ा बांध), also known as Bhakra Nangal Dam, is a 225.55 m high concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Bhakshak (भक्षक)
Bhakshak (भक्षक), a 2024 Hindi crime drama directed by Pulkit for Red Chillies Entertainment, stars Bhumi Pednekar as journalist Vaishali Singh investigating abuse at a girls' shelter home, inspired by the Muzaffarpur shelter home case, released on Netflix 9 February 2024.
Bhakta B. Rath
Bhakta B. Rath is an Indian-born American materials scientist who headed the Materials Science and Component Technology Directorate at the United States Naval Research Laboratory from 1976 until his retirement in 2017.
Bhakta Charan Das
Bhakta Charan Das, born in 1958, is an Indian National Congress politician who has led the party's Odisha unit since 2025 and served three terms in the Lok Sabha from Kalahandi.
Bhakta Prahlada
Bhakta Prahlada (భక్త ప్రహ్లాద) is a 1932 Indian Telugu mythological film directed by H. M. Reddy, the first full-length talkie in Telugu cinema, released in Bombay in 1932.
Bhakta Pundalik
Bhakta Pundalik (भक्त पुंडलिक) is a devotee of the god Vitthal at Pandharpur, revered in the Varkari tradition as the foremost devotee, honored for his service to his parents.
Bhaktalilamrita
Bhaktalilamrita (भक्तलीलामृत), also rendered Bhaktalilamrut, is a Marathi hagiographical poem in 51 chapters by Mahipati, completed in 1774, recounting the lives and miracles of Vaishnava saints, especially those of Maharashtra.
Bhaktamal
Bhaktamal (भक्तमाल) is a Braj Bhasha verse hagiography compiled by the saint-poet Nabhadas, the first biographical work in Hindi and second in popularity only to the Ramcharitmanas.
Bhakti (भक्ति)
Bhakti (भक्ति), also called Bhagawat dharma, is a Sanskrit term for intense devotion to God, a Hindu path of worship and service presented in the Bhagavad Gita.
Bhakti movement
The Bhakti movement is a Hindu path of loving devotion to a personal deity, practiced through singing and serving God and spread by poet-saints from the sixth century CE.
Bhakti movement in Telugu literature
The Bhakti movement in Telugu literature was a devotional literary current of the 15th to 17th centuries, pioneered by Annamacharya of Tirupati through the padam song form.
Bhakti Ratnavali
Bhakti Ratnavali (ভক্তি-ৰত্নাৱলী) is an Assamese verse rendering by the saint Madhavadeva of a Sanskrit devotional anthology compiled by Visnupuri, translated in the sixteenth century.
Bhakti Thapa
Bhakti Thapa (भक्ति थापा, 1741–1815) was a Gorkhali military commander and administrator who led the conquest of western Nepal and died at 73 fighting the British at Deothal.
Bhakti yoga (भक्ति योग)
Bhakti yoga (भक्ति योग), also called Bhaktimarga, is the Hindu path of loving devotion to God, presented in the Bhagavad Gita and practiced through hearing, singing, and worship.
Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu
Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu (भक्तिरसामृतसिन्धु) is a sixteenth-century Sanskrit treatise by Rūpa Gosvāmin, completed at Vrindavan in 1541, that organizes loving devotion to Krishna in five primary bhakti-rasas and is the principal doctrinal text of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition.
Bhaktikal
Bhaktikal (भक्तिकाल) is the period of Hindi literary history, about 1318 to 1643, in which devotional poetry dominated, with poets such as Kabir, Surdas, Tulsidas, and Mirabai.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (ভক্তিসিদ্ধান্ত সরস্বতী), born Bimala Prasad Datta, was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru (1874 to 1937) who founded the Gaudiya Math, whose offshoots include ISKCON.
Bhaktivinoda Thakur
Bhaktivinoda Thakur (ভক্তিবিনোদ ঠাকুর), born Kedarnath Datta (1838 to 1914), was a Bengali magistrate in British India who revived Gaudiya Vaishnavism and inspired its later preaching in the West.
Bhalchandra Nemade
Bhalchandra Nemade (भालचंद्र नेमाडे) is a Marathi novelist, poet, and critic known for Kosala (1963) and for formulating the literary theory of nativism, or deshivad.
Bhale Bhale Magadivoy
Bhale Bhale Magadivoy (భలే భలే మగాడివోయ్) is a 2015 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Maruthi Dasari, starring Nani as a forgetful scientist and Lavanya Tripathi; it earned ₹27.11 crore worldwide and won Nani a Filmfare Critics Award.
Bhale Manchi Roju (భలే మంచి రోజు)
Bhale Manchi Roju (భలే మంచి రోజు) is a 2015 Telugu crime comedy, Sriram Adittya's directorial debut, starring Sudheer Babu and Wamiqa Gabbi in a single-day kidnap drama released 25 December 2015 with music by Sunny MR.
Bhale Unnade (భలే ఉన్నాడే)
Bhale Unnade (భలే ఉన్నాడే), also spelled Bhala Unnade, is a 2024 Telugu romantic comedy-drama directed by J Sivasai Vardhan, starring Raj Tarun as saree draper Radha and Manisha Kandkur as Krishna; released 13 September 2024, it flopped at the box office despite a high IMDb rating.
Bhallataka sodhana
Bhallataka sodhana (Śodhana) is the Ayurvedic purification of Semecarpus anacardium, the toxic marking nut (Upavisha, Schedule E1), using media like cow's urine and milk to convert anacardic acid into less irritant cardanol and anacardol.
Bhallatakadi modaka
Bhallatakadi Modaka (Bhallātakādi Modaka), an official Ayurvedic lump preparation (AFI Part I, 3:21) of purified Semecarpus anacardium, Terminalia chebula, sesame, and jaggery, used for pittārśa hemorrhoids at 2-5 g daily.
Bhalluka
Bhalluka (भल्लुक), also rendered Bhallika or Bhalliya, is the younger of two merchant brothers who offered the Buddha his first meal after enlightenment and became his first lay disciples.
Bhālswa Jahangirpur
Bhalswa Jahangirpur (Bhalaswa Jahangirpur) is a census town and resettlement colony in North West Delhi, population 197,148 in 2011, settled from 2000 by relocated slum families and adjoining the Bhalswa landfill and lake.