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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bhagavan (भगवान्)
Bhagavan (भगवान्) is a Sanskrit honorific meaning "endowed with fortune," used across Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions for supreme deities, the Buddha, and revered teachers.
Bhagavata cult
The Bhagavata cult (भागवत संप्रदाय) was an ancient Indian tradition worshiping Vasudeva-Krishna as Bhagavan; arising near Mathura, it was championed by the Gupta emperors.
Bhagavata Purana
The Bhagavata Purana, also called Srimad Bhagavatam, is a Sanskrit devotional text of twelve books centered on Krishna or Vishnu, formalized by the tenth century and regarded as the scripture of devotion.
Bhagavata tradition
The Bhagavata tradition (भागवत परम्परा) is a Vaishnava tradition of devotion to Bhagavan, spread by the Satvata people and reaching a climax in the Gupta period.
Bhagavati Sutra
The Bhagavati Sutra, also called the Vyākhyāprajñapti or Viyāhapannatti, is the fifth and largest of the twelve Aṅgas of the Śvetāmbara Jain canon, framed as questions Gautama puts to Mahāvīra.
Bhagirath Choudhary
Bhagirath Choudhary is an Indian BJP politician who serves as Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and represents Ajmer in the Lok Sabha.
Bhagiratha (भगीरथ)
Bhagiratha (भगीरथ), legendary Ikshvaku king of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, whose penance brought the Ganga from heaven to earth via Shiva's locks; namesake of the Bhagirathi headstream and of the idiom bhagiratha-prayatna.
Bhagmati
Bhagmati is a legendary Hindu dancer whom Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah of Golconda is said to have loved, with Hyderabad's founding and renaming tied to her story.
Bhagu
Bhagu (ဘဂု) was a prince of the Sakya clan and kinsman of the Buddha who ordained with Anuruddha and Ananda; the Theragatha preserves his verses on winning arahantship.
Bhagvatsinhji of Gondal
Bhagvatsinhji of Gondal (भगवतसिंहजी) was Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal in Gujarat from 1869 to 1944, the only Maharaja to earn a medical degree, who abolished taxes and made schooling free and compulsory.
Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha
Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha is an Indian politician from Bihar, a Janata Dal (United) member serving as Minister for Planning and Development in the state government.
Bhagwant Das
Bhagwant Das (भगवंत दास) was the Kachhwaha ruler of Amber, a high-ranking noble of Emperor Akbar, and the father of the general Man Singh I.
Bhagwant Mann (ਭਗਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਾਨ)
Bhagwant Mann (ਭਗਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਾਨ), born 1973, is Chief Minister of Punjab since March 2022, leading AAP's 92-of-117-seat government; former Sangrur MP and comedian.
Bhagwati Charan Vohra
Bhagwati Charan Vohra (भगवती चरण वोहरा) was an Indian revolutionary and HSRA ideologue who wrote The Philosophy of the Bomb and died testing a bomb in 1930.
Bhagyachandra
Bhagyachandra (ভাগ্যচন্দ্ৰ), also called Ching-thang Khomba, was a king of Manipur who reigned from 1759 to 1798 and concluded Manipur's first recorded treaty with the British in 1762.
Bhai Bala
Bhai Bala (ਭਾਈ ਬਾਲਾ) is a figure of early Sikh tradition, traditionally dated 1466 to 1544, regarded by popular belief as a lifelong companion of Guru Nanak.
Bhai Buddha
Bhai Buddha (ਭਾਈ ਬੁੱਢਾ), also called Baba Buddha, was a Sikh religious figure born in 1506 who served the first six Gurus and anointed five of them.
Bhai Daya Singh
Bhai Daya Singh (ਭਾਈ ਦਇਆ ਸਿੰਘ), born Daya Ram of Lahore, was the first of the Panj Pyare, offering his head when Guru Gobind Singh founded the Khalsa in 1699.
Bhai Dayala
Bhai Dayala (ਭਾਈ ਦਿਆਲਾ), also written Bhai Dyal Dass, was a Sikh household minister of Guru Tegh Bahadur, executed at Delhi in November 1675 for refusing conversion to Islam.