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Bhai Dooj (भाई दूज)
Bhai Dooj, also called Bhai Phonta or Bhai Tika, is a Hindu festival two days after Diwali on which sisters apply a tilak to their brothers' foreheads and feed them.
Bhai Gurdas
Bhai Gurdas (ਭਾਈ ਗੁਰਦਾਸ) was a Sikh poet, theologian, and scribe, c. 1550 to 1636, who served the Gurus, wrote down the Adi Granth under Guru Arjan, and composed the semicanonical Vars.
Bhai Himmat Singh
Bhai Himmat Singh (ਭਾਈ ਹਿੰਮਤ ਸਿੰਘ, 1661–1705), born Himmat Rai, was one of the Panj Pyare initiated into the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699.
Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha (ਭਾਈ ਕਾਨ੍ਹ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਾਭਾ, 1861–1938) was a Sikh scholar and encyclopedist who served the princely state of Nabha and compiled the Mahan Kosh.
Bhai Maharaj Singh
Bhai Maharaj Singh (ਭਾਈ ਮਹਾਰਾਜ ਸਿੰਘ), born Nihal Singh, was a Sikh leader who resisted British rule in Punjab and died in exile in Singapore in 1856.
Bhai Mani Singh
Bhai Mani Singh (ਭਾਈ ਮਾਨੀ ਸਿੰਘ) was a Sikh scholar, scribe, and martyr who wrote the revised Guru Granth Sahib and was executed at Lahore in 1738.
Bhai Mardana
Bhai Mardana (ਭਾਈ ਮਰਦਾਨਾ) was a Muslim rabab player and lifelong companion of Guru Nanak, born in 1459 at Nankana Sahib and traveling with him on four udasis.
Bhai Mati Das
Bhai Mati Das (ਭਾਈ ਮਤੀ ਦਾਸ) was the diwan of Guru Tegh Bahadur, executed at Chandni Chowk, Delhi, in 1675 for refusing to convert to Islam.
Bhai Mohan Singh
Bhai Mohan Singh (1917–2006) was an Indian pharmaceutical industrialist who built Ranbaxy Laboratories into one of India's largest drug companies and led it for over four decades.
Bhai Mohkam Singh
Bhai Mohkam Singh (ਭਾਈ ਮੋਹਕਮ ਸਿੰਘ), born Mohkam Chand, was one of the Panj Pyare, the five Sikhs initiated into the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh at Anandpur in 1699.
Bhai Nand Lal
Bhai Nand Lal (ਭਾਈ ਨੰਦ ਲਾਲ, c. 1633–1713), who wrote as Goya, was a Persian-language poet and Mughal administrator who became a disciple of Guru Gobind Singh.
Bhai Santokh Singh
Bhai Santokh Singh (ਭਾਈ ਸੰਤੋਖ ਸਿੰਘ), born 1787, was a Sikh poet and historian who wrote in Braj Bhasha, best known for the Sri Gur Pratap Suraj Granth.
Bhai Sati Das
Bhai Sati Das (ਭਾਈ ਸਤੀ ਦਾਸ) was a Sikh martyr and Persian scholar who served Guru Tegh Bahadur and was executed at Delhi in 1675 on Emperor Aurangzeb's orders.
Bhai Taru Singh
Bhai Taru Singh (ਭਾਈ ਤਾਰੂ ਸਿੰਘ) was a Sandhu Jat Sikh farmer and martyr, executed at Lahore in 1745 for supplying food to Sikhs hiding from Mughal authorities.
Bhai Vir Singh
Bhai Vir Singh (ਭਾਈ ਵੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ; 1872–1957) was an Indian Sikh writer and publisher in Amritsar who led the Singh Sabha movement and is honored as the father of modern Punjabi literature.
Bhairava (भैरव)
Bhairava, also known as Kalabhairava or Kal Bhairava, is a fierce manifestation of the Hindu god Shiva, venerated in Shaivism and Tantric Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
Bhairavi (भैरवी)
Bhairavi (भैरवी), "the terrible goddess," is a Hindu Mahavidya goddess, consort of the fierce Shiva form Bhairava, worshipped in fierce Kali-like and benign Parvati-like forms, honored at Bhairavi Jayanti on Margashirsha Purnima.
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (भैरों सिंह शेखावत)
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (भैरों सिंह शेखावत, 1923–2010), 11th Vice-President of India (2002–2007) and three-time Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1977, also Leader of the Opposition and long-serving MLA.
Bhajan (भजन)
Bhajan (भजन), also called Namasankeetanam, is a Hindu devotional song of personal communion with the divine, led by a soloist with a responding chorus and accompanied by drums and cymbals.
Bhajan Lal Jatav
Bhajan Lal Jatav, born in 1968 in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is an Indian National Congress politician who served as a Rajasthan minister and has represented Karauli-Dholpur in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.