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Bhausahebanchi Bakhar

Bhausahebanchi Bakhar (भाऊसाहेबांची बखर) is a Marathi bakhar of the Peshwa period, written around 1762–63, narrating Sadashivrao Bhau's career from 1753 to 1761 and the Third Battle of Panipat.

Bhavabhuti

Bhavabhuti (भवभूति) was a Sanskrit dramatist and poet from Vidarbha, active around 700 to 730 CE at the court of Yashovarman of Kanauj, best known for the plays Mahaviracharita, Malatimadhava, and Uttararamacharita.

Bhavacakra

The bhavacakra, or Wheel of Life, is a Buddhist painted diagram of samsara, the round of rebirth, prescribed for monastery entrances and still painted at almost every Tibetan monastery.

Bhavadattavarman

Bhavadattavarman (भवदत्तवर्मन्) was a king of the Nala dynasty, which ruled the Bastar region of present-day Chhattisgarh in the late 5th century, and campaigned against the Eastern Vakataka realm.

Bhavamisra

Bhavamisra (भावमिश्र) was a 16th-century Sanskrit physician and Ayurvedic author of eastern North India, probably living from 1530 to 1600, best known for compiling the Bhavaprakasha, a comprehensive medical digest.

Bhavaprakasha

Bhavaprakasha (भावप्रकाश), also titled Bhāvaprakāśana, is a Sanskrit treatise on dramaturgy by Śāradātanaya, securely dated to about 1175–1250 CE, covering drama, music, gesture, and costume.

Bhavavarman I

Bhavavarman I was a late sixth-century king of Chenla who, with his brother Citrasena, later Mahendravarman, led the conquests from the middle Mekong into Cambodia and against Funan.

Bhavaviveka

Bhavaviveka (c. 500–570) was a Madhyamaka philosopher of southern India, known for the Prajnapradipa commentary on Nagarjuna and for arguing with independent syllogisms rather than consequences alone.

Bhavik Koladiya

Bhavik Koladiya is an Indian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded BharatPe with Shashvat Nakrani, incorporated in New Delhi in 2018, and later sued Ashneer Grover to reclaim shares.

Bhavin Turakhia

Bhavin Turakhia is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Directi in 1998 with his brother Divyank and leads Zeta, a banking-software company valued at $2 billion in 2025.

Bhavit Sheth

Bhavit Sheth is an Indian engineer who co-founded Dream Sports, the parent of fantasy platform Dream11, with Harsh Jain in 2008 and serves as its COO.

Bhavnagar State

Bhavnagar State (ભાવનગર રાજ્ય) was a princely state in Kathiawar, on the Gulf of Khambhat in present-day Gujarat, founded in 1723 and ruled by the Gohil dynasty until it merged into the Indian Union in 1948.

Bhavya

Bhavya, also written Bhāviveka, was a sixth-century Indian Madhyamaka philosopher and chronicler of the Buddhist schools, counted by Tibetan tradition as founder of the Svātantrika subschool.

Bhawani Singh (भवानी सिंह)

Bhawani Singh (भवानी सिंह, 1931–2011), Brigadier Sawai Bhawani Singh, last titular Maharaja of Jaipur, was an Indian Army officer and Maha Vir Chakra recipient for the 1971 Chachro and Virawah raids in Sindh, later ambassador to Brunei.

Bherabharatpur Mound

Bherabharatpur Mound, at Bherabharatpur in Tehsil Amroha, Moradabad district, Uttar Pradesh, is an ASI centrally protected site (N-UP-A246, Agra Circle) recorded as a large mound marking an ancient temple, with life-sized statues and dressed stones found there.

Bhikaiji Cama

Bhikaiji Cama (Bhikaji Cama, Madam Cama), 1861-1936, Parsi Indian revolutionary in European exile; unfurled an early Indian independence flag at Stuttgart in 1907, co-founded the Paris Indian Society, and published Bande Mataram.

Bhikkhu

A bhikkhu (Bikshu) is a fully ordained Buddhist monk, literally one who lives by alms, ordained at twenty or older and bound by the Pāṭimokkha's 227 rules.

Bhillama V

Bhillama V (भिल्लम) was a ruler of the Yadava dynasty of the Deccan, India, who reigned from about 1187 to 1191 and founded the hill fortress capital Devagiri, later known as Daulatabad.

BHIM

BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is the Indian government's UPI payment app, launched in 2016, now operated by NPCI BHIM Services Limited and handling about 1 percent of India's UPI transactions.

Bhim Hang Limboo

Bhim Hang Limboo is an Indian politician of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha who serves as minister for Buildings and Housing and Labour, representing Yangthang in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly since 2019.

Bhim Singh (Bihar BJP politician)

Bhim Singh is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party member serving in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar, elected for a term running from 2024 to 2030.

Bhim Singh of Mewar

Bhim Singh of Mewar (भीम सिंह) was the Maharana of Mewar, reigning from 1778 to 1828; in 1818 he signed a treaty placing Mewar under British protection.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Bhitari Pillar Inscription of Skandagupta

The Bhitari Pillar Inscription of Skandagupta (भितरी स्तंभ अभिलेख) is a Sanskrit prashasti on a red sandstone pillar at Bhitari, Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh, recording the Gupta genealogy and Skandagupta's wars.