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Bhima (landform)

Bhima River (Chandrabhaga near Pandharpur), major left-bank tributary of the Krishna in peninsular India; rises at Bhimashankar, Maharashtra, runs about 861 km through Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Telangana, joining the Krishna near Raichur; basin about 70,614 sq km, roughly 75% in Maharashtra.

Bhima (भीम)

Bhima (भीम), also Bhimasena or Vrikodara, is the second Pandava son of Pandu and Kunti in the Mahabharata, fathered by the wind god Vayu, famed for mace combat under Balarama, the slaying of all hundred Kaurava sons, Jarasandha, and Kichaka.

Bhima Bhoi

Bhima Bhoi (ଭୀମ ଭୋଇ) was a nineteenth-century Odia saint-poet, the literary voice of the Mahima Dharma movement, based at Khaliapali until his death in 1895.

Bhima II

Bhima II was a Chaulukya (Solanki) king of Gujarat who acceded as a child in 1178 after his brother Mularaja II's death and ruled into the early 1240s.

Bhimaa

Bhimaa (భీమా) is a 2024 Telugu fantasy action thriller directed by A. Harsha, starring Gopichand as a cop in Mahendragiri; produced by Sri Sathya Sai Arts, released 8 March 2024, a box-office flop streamed on Disney+ Hotstar.

Bhimashankar Temple (भीमाशंकर मंदिर)

Bhimashankar Temple (भीमाशंकर मंदिर), a Jyotirlinga shrine of Shiva in the Sahyadri hills of Pune district, Maharashtra, source of the Bhima River; Nagara-style, Peshwa-expanded temple renovated in 2026 ahead of the 2027 Nashik Kumbh Mela.

Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh

Bhimavaram (భీమవరం), West Godavari district headquarters in Andhra Pradesh since April 2022; Godavari delta city of about 147,000 (2011), home of the Somarama Pancharama temple and India's largest brackishwater shrimp aquaculture cluster.

Bhimbetka rock shelters

Bhimbetka rock shelters (भीमबेटका): UNESCO World Heritage site (2003) in Madhya Pradesh, India, 45 km south of Bhopal, with over 750 painted sandstone shelters spanning the Mesolithic to historical periods, discovered by V. S. Wakankar in 1957.

Bhimesvara Purana of Srinatha

The Bhimesvara Purana (భీమేశ్వర పురాణం), also called Bhima-khandamu, is a Telugu Shaiva purana by Srinatha glorifying the Bhimesvara temple at Draksharamam and Siva's war against the Tripura demons.

Sep 19, 2026

Bhimji Depar Shah

Bhimji Depar Shah, born in 1931 in Mombasa, is a Kenyan industrialist who founded the Bidco group in 1970 and built it into Kenya's leading edible oil producer.

Bhimsen Joshi

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (1922–2011) was an Indian Hindustani classical vocalist of the Kirana gharana, trained by Sawai Gandharva, famed for khayal, abhangs, Mile Sur Mera Tumhara, the Sawai Gandharva festival, and the 2008 Bharat Ratna.

Bhimsen Saxena

Bhimsen Saxena (भीमसेन सक्सेना) was a seventeenth-century Kayastha soldier, scribe, and memoirist who served in Aurangzeb's Deccan campaigns and wrote the Persian Tarikh-i Dilkusha in 1707.

Bhimsen Thapa

Bhimsen Thapa (भीमसेन थापा) was a Nepali statesman who served as chief minister of Nepal from 1806 to 1837 and directed the Nepali side of the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814 to 1816.

Bhind

Bhind (भिण्ड) district, northernmost district of Madhya Pradesh, India, in the Chambal valley; 4,459 sq km, about 1.7 million people (2011), agriculture-based economy, known for ravines and Ater Fort.

Bhir Mound

Bhir Mound, earliest historic city of Taxila in Punjab, Pakistan, occupied 6th-2nd century BC, linked to Alexander's 326 BC visit; irregular pre-Hellenistic layout, early bent-bar coins, part of Taxila World Heritage Site.

Sep 19, 2026

Bhirrana

Bhirrana is an archaeological mound in Fatehabad district, Haryana, India, on the dried Saraswati river, dated to 7570–6200 BC and excavated by the ASI from 2003 to 2006.

Oct 22, 2026

Bhisham Sahni

Bhisham Sahni (भीष्म साहनी) was an Indian Hindi writer, playwright, and actor best known for the novel Tamas, an account of the Partition of India, and received the Padma Bhushan in 1998.

Bhishma (भीष्म)

Bhishma (भीष्म, Devavrata, Gangaputra, Pitamaha), Mahabharata patriarch: son of Shantanu and Ganga, took the terrible vow of lifelong celibacy, led the Kauravas for ten days, fell to Arjuna behind Shikhandi, died at Uttarayana after 58 nights on a bed of arrows.

Bhishmar

Bhishmar (ഭീഷ്മർ) is a 2026 Malayalam comedy thriller directed by East Coast Vijayan, starring Dhyan Sreenivasan and Vishnu Unnikrishnan in their first pairing; released 20 March 2026, streaming on Prime Video and Sun NXT from 22 May 2026.

Bhita Mound

Bhita Mound (भीटा), also Sahajati, an ancient fortified town mound on the Yamuna near Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh; excavated 1909-10 by John Marshall as the first dig of an ancient Indian town, with Shunga terracottas, seals, and Gupta inscriptions.

Oct 20, 2026

Bhitargaon Mound

Bhitargaon Mound, Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh: site of a mid-5th-century Gupta brick Hindu temple, the only standing Gupta brick temple, with a c. 70 ft pyramidal shikhara and terracotta panels.

Oct 22, 2026

Bhitargaon Temple

The Bhitargaon Temple is a 5th-century Gupta Hindu temple of brick and terracotta in Kanpur Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, and the oldest surviving terracotta temple with a roof.

Bhitari Mound

Bhitari Mound, also called Bhitari temple site, near Saidpur, Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh: a Gupta-period (4th-6th century CE) ruined temple complex with the red sandstone pillar of Skandagupta, whose inscription records his Huna victories and a Vishnu image installation.