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Bharud
Bharud (भारूड) is a Marathi devotional poetry genre in which spiritual teaching is delivered through the voice of an ordinary worldly character, especially by the sixteenth-century saint Eknath.
Bharuds of Eknath
The Bharuds of Eknath (एकनाथांचे भारूड) are allegorical, singable devotional poems by the sixteenth-century Marathi saint-poet Eknath of Paithan, who brought the form its greatest popularity.
Bhasa
Bhasa (भास) is one of ancient India's most celebrated Sanskrit dramatists, praised by Kalidasa, known through thirteen plays published in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series in 1912, including Svapnavasavadatta.
Bhashya
Bhashya (भाष्य) is an extensive Sanskrit commentary explaining a sutra text, the standard form of Sanskrit philosophy, exemplified by Patanjali's Mahabhashya and Shankara's Brahmasutra-bhashya, with rival bhashyas defining Vedanta schools.
Bhashyam Rama Krishna
Bhashyam Rama Krishna (భాష్యం రామకృష్ణ), TDP educationist and founder of Bhashyam Educational Institutions (163 branches, ~1.6 lakh students), elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh in 2026 for the 2026-2032 term; distinct from other Bhashyam-named figures.
Bhaskar Bhagare
Bhaskar Bhagare is an Indian politician from Maharashtra, a Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) member who has represented Dindori in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Bhaskar Oru Rascal
Bhaskar Oru Rascal (பாஸ்கர் ஒரு ராஸ்கல்) is a 2018 Tamil action comedy directed by Siddique, remaking his Malayalam hit Bhaskar the Rascal; Arvind Swamy and Amala Paul play single parents matchmade by their children.
Bhaskar Pandit
Bhaskar Pandit (भास्कर पंडित), or Bhaskar Ram Kolhatkar, was a Maratha general under Raghuji Bhonsle who led the first Maratha invasions of Bengal and was assassinated in 1744.
Bhaskar the Rascal (ഭാസ്ക്കർ ദ റാസ്ക്കൽ)
Bhaskar the Rascal (ഭാസ്ക്കർ ദ റാസ്ക്കൽ) is a 2015 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Siddique, starring Mammootty as widower businessman Bhaskar and Nayanthara as Hima; remade in Tamil as Bhaskar Oru Rascal (2018).
Bhāskara I
Bhāskara I, also known as Bhaskara the First, was a 7th-century Indian mathematician and astronomer whose 629 commentary on Āryabhaṭa's Āryabhaṭīya is the earliest detailed prose exposition of mathematical astronomy in India.
Bhāskara II (भास्कर)
Bhāskara II, also called Bhāskarāchārya or Bhaskara the Learned, was an Indian mathematician and astronomer (1114–1185) who led the Ujjain observatory and wrote the Lilavati.
Bhaskara lavana curna (bhaskara lavana cirna)
Bhaskara lavana curna (Lavana Bhaskar Churna, भास्कर लवण चूर्ण) is a classical Ayurvedic salt-and-herb powder, 18 ingredients including four salts and Piper species, dosed 1–3 g for indigestion, constipation, and vata-kapha GI disorders.
Bhaskara Ravi Varman I
Bhaskara Ravi Varman I (ഭാസ്കര രവി വർമൻ) was a Chera Perumal king who ruled from Mahodayapuram in Kerala in the late 10th and early 11th centuries.
Bhaskararaya
Bhaskararaya (भास्करराय), also called Bhasuranandanatha or Bhaskararaya Makhin, was an 18th-century Sanskrit polymath and tantric scholar in South India, known for the Saubhagya Bhaskara commentary on the Lalita Sahasranama.
Bhaskaravarman
Bhaskaravarman (भास्करवर्मन्) was a seventh-century king of Kamarupa in present-day Assam who brought the Varman dynasty to its height through his alliance with Emperor Harshavardhana.
Bhaskaravarman's embassy to Tang China
Bhaskaravarman's embassy to Tang China (भास्करवर्मन का दूत मंडल) was a 7th-century diplomatic exchange between Harsha's India and Taizong's China, opened through the monk Xuanzang.
Bhat (भट्ट)
Bhat (भट्ट, Sanskrit bhaṭṭa) is a South Asian surname and title meaning lord or learned one, borne by Brahmin, bard, and Muslim communities; Bhatt ranks about 2,021st worldwide with roughly 271,000 bearers, concentrated in India and Nepal.
Bhat family
Bhat family (भट घराणा), the Chitpavan Brahmin house of Poona that held the hereditary peshwa-ship of the Maratha state from Balaji Vishwanath (1713–1720) and ruled de facto after 1749; distinct from the bardic bhat caste.
Bhatara
Bhatara (ভাটারা, Vatara) is a thana and suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in Dhaka North City Corporation, with 324,304 residents at the 2022 census; the name also covers villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, and Jamalpur, Bangladesh.
Bhatarka
Bhatarka (भटार्क) was a general who took advantage of Gupta decline to found the Maitraka dynasty, ruling Gujarat and Saurashtra from Valabhi in the late fifth century.
Bhati clan of Jaisalmer
The Bhati clan of Jaisalmer (भाटी) was a Rajput dynasty of claimed Yadava descent that ruled Jaisalmer in western Rajasthan, founded by Rawal Jaisal in the twelfth century.
Bhatiali
Bhatiali (ভাটিয়ালি), also spelled Bhatiyali, is a Bengali folk-song tradition of Bangladesh and West Bengal, the river song of boatmen, sung in slow, long-drawn notes while drifting on the ebb current.
Bhatima
Bhatima (also spelled Bhotima) is a short devotional poem of praise invented by the Assamese Vaishnavite saint Srimanta Sankaradeva and sung in his one-act plays.
Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook model
The Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook (BGK) model is a simplified collision operator in kinetic theory, introduced in 1954, that replaces the Boltzmann collision integral with relaxation toward local equilibrium, making simulations far cheaper.
Bhatta Lakshmidhara
Bhatta Lakshmidhara (भट्ट लक्ष्मीधर) was a twelfth-century Indian jurist and minister at the court of Govindachandra, king of Kanyakubja, who compiled the Krityakalpataru, the oldest surviving digest of Hindu law.
Bhaṭṭa Nīlakaṇṭha
Bhaṭṭa Nīlakaṇṭha (भट्ट नीलकण्ठ) was a Sanskrit dharmaśāstra author of Paithan who settled in Benares and composed the twelve-part legal digest Bhagavantabhāskara around 1610 to 1650.
Bhattacharyya distance
The Bhattacharyya distance is a divergence measure between two probability distributions, defined as the negative logarithm of the Bhattacharyya coefficient and introduced by A. Bhattacharyya in 1943.
Bhattadeva
Bhattadeva (ভট্টদেৱ), born Vaikunthanatha Bhattacharya, was an Assamese Vaishnavite scholar, 1558 to 1638, regarded as the father of Assamese prose; his Katha Bhagavata pioneered Assamese prose writing.
Bhattanarayana
Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa (भट्ट नारायण) was a Vaiṣṇava Sanskrit dramatist, known for his six-act play Veṇīsaṃhāra, which recalls the Mahābhārata war and Bhīma's vow of revenge.
Bhattanayaka
Bhaṭṭanāyaka (भट्टनायक) was a Kashmiri Sanskrit aesthetician of the late ninth and tenth centuries who relocated aesthetic experience from the literary work to the spectator.