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Beyond the Boundary (境界の彼方)
Beyond the Boundary (境界の彼方, Kyōkai no Kanata) is a dark-fantasy light novel by Nagomu Torii, 2nd Kyoto Animation Award encouragement winner, published 2012–2013 by KA Esuma Bunko, adapted into a 12-episode 2013 Kyoto Animation TV anime and 2015 I'll Be Here films.
BFG (weapon)
BFG (Big Fucking Gun) is the fictional plasma weapon of id Software's Doom (1993), known as the BFG 9000, the most powerful standard gun in classic Doom, based on a Toys'R'Us toy and widely referenced across games and film.
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.
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.
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 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.
Bhanubhakta Ramayana
The Bhanubhakta Ramayana (भानुभक्त रामायण) is a Nepali verse rendering of the Ramayana by Bhanubhakta Acharya, Nepal's first poet, completed in 1853 and regarded as the first Nepali epic.
Bhanumati
Bhanumati (Assamese: ভানুমতী, Bhanumoti) is a novel by the Assamese writer Padmanath Gohain Baruah, serialized in Bijuli and published as a book in 1908, generally regarded as the first Assamese novel.
Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali
Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali (ভানুসিংহ ঠাকুরের পদাবলী) is an 1884 collection of Vaishnava lyrics that Rabindranath Tagore wrote in adolescence under the pseudonym Bhanusimha, imitating the medieval poets of Radha and Krishna.
Bharat Durdasha
Bharat Durdasha (भारत दुर्दशा, "The Plight of India") is an allegorical Hindi play by Bharatendu Harishchandra portraying India's misery under British rule through personified characters.
Bharat-Bharati
Bharat-Bharati (भारत-भारती) is a 1912 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, divided into past, present, and future sections, whose popularity in the freedom movement led Gandhi to name Gupt Rashtrakavi.
Bharata (Ramayana)
Bharata (भरत) is Rama's brother in the Ramayana, son of Dasharatha and Kaikeyi, who refused the throne, placed Rama's sandals on it, and ruled Ayodhya as regent from Nandigrama during Rama's fourteen-year exile.
Bharata (भरत) (Mahabharata)
Bharata (भरत), son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala in the Mahabharata's Adi Parva, named 'the supported' by a celestial messenger, ancestor of the epic's Kurus and Pandavas and eponym of India's Sanskrit name, Bharata.
Bharatam Pattu
Bharatam Pattu (ഭാരതം പാട്ട്) is a Malayalam verse rendering of the Mahabharata composed by poet Ayyanappilla Asan, classifying it as a later work of the pattu school.
Bharatesha Vaibhava
Bharatesha Vaibhava (ಭರತೇಶವೈಭವ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada Jain epic by the poet Ratnakaravarni, telling the life of Bharata, eldest son of the first Tirthankara Adinatha.
Bharathipura
Bharathipura is a 1973 Kannada novel by U. R. Ananthamurthy, his second after Samskara, in which Jagannatha, an England-educated landlord's son, organizes a temple entry for Dalits and fails.
Bharthari
Bharthari (भरथरी) is a folk epic of northern India telling of a king of Ujjain who renounces his throne and worldly life to become a disciple of Guru Gorakhnath.
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.
Bhattikavya
Bhattikavya, also called Ravanavadha, is a Sanskrit mahakavya by the poet Bhatti, written around the sixth century, that retells Rama's story while illustrating Panini's grammar and Sanskrit poetics.
Bhavarth Ramayan
Bhavarth Ramayan (भावार्थ रामायण) is Sant Eknath's Marathi rendering of the Rama story, composed between 1595 and 1599 and completed after his death by his disciple Gavba.
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.
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.
Bhogini Dandakamu
Bhogini Dandakamu (భోగినీ దండకము) is a short 15th-century Telugu court poem attributed to the poet Bammera Pothana, praising the courtesan Bhogini, who won the love of King Sarvajna Singabhupala.
Bhojaprabandha
Bhojaprabandha (भोजप्रबन्ध) is a 16th-century Sanskrit narrative in prose and verse by Ballāla, collecting 85 legendary stories about the 11th-century Paramara king Bhoja of Dhārā and his patronage of poets and scholars.
Bhoomigeetham
Bhoomigeetham (ഭൂമിഗീതം, "song of the earth") is a name shared by several Malayalam and Sanskrit works, including a Bhagavata hymn, poems, and a 1993 film.
Bhoomikkoru Charamageetham
Bhoomikkoru Charamageetham (ഭൂമിക്കൊരു ചരമഗീതം), translated as A Requiem for the Earth, is a 1984 Malayalam poem by O.N.V. Kurup lamenting the desecration of Mother Earth.
Bhramargeet
Bhramargeet (भ्रमरगीत), meaning "song of the bumblebee," is a Hindi Krishna lyric in which the gopis of Braj reproach a bee meant for Krishna; Surdas began the tradition.
Bỉ vỏ
Bỉ vỏ is a Vietnamese realist novel by Nguyên Hồng, his first, written in 1935–1936 and first published in 1938, following the village girl Tám Bính into poverty in Hải Phòng.
Biag ni Lam-ang
Biag ni Lam-ang (Life of Lam-ang) is the Ilocano folk epic of northwestern Luzon, first published by Isabelo de los Reyes in El Ilocano (1889-1890), telling of the hero Lam-ang's birth, vengeance, courtship of Ines Kannoyan, and resurrection.