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Bekhiid 72 Bihari Eekhud, '^J^^, poetical name of Saj'^'ad Hadi 'AH, son of Sayyad Nasir 'All Sehr, and author of a Di'wan. BetaTb, whose proper name is Abtas 'AH Khan, which see. Bengal, Sultans and Governors of, vide Muhammad Bakh- taiar Khilji, and IQian Jahan. Berar, *^L5; raja of, vide Raghoji Bh6sla. Bhagwan Das (raja), i_r^->i?V ^r-f;, called hy Abu'l Fazl Bhagwant Das, was the son of Eaja Bihara Mai Kachhwaha of Ambhar or Amer, now Jaipur. His daughter was married to the prince Mirza Salim (after- wards Jahangii-) in the year 1685 A. D., 993 A. H., by whom he had a daughter named Sultan-un-nisa Begam, and then a son who now was Sultan Khusro. Bhagwan Das died iive days after the death of Eaja Todar Mai, i. e., on the loth November, 1589 A. D., 19th Muharram 998 A. H., at Labor. After his death, the emperor Akbar, who was then at Kabul, conferred the title of Eaja on his son Man Singh with the rank of 5000. Bhagwant Singh, ^^"^ '^b^^, rana of Dhaulpur (1857). He died on the 14th February, 1873. Bhanbu Khan, i^^ji^i, the son of Zabita Khan, which see. Bhau, J)^t?, a Marhatta chief. Vide Sadasheo Bhau. Bhau Singh, J^f-? also called Mirza Eaja, was the second son of Eaja Man Singh, the son of Raja Bhagwan Das Kachhwaha. He succeeded to the raj after his father's death in 1614 A. D., 1023 A. H , was raised to the rank of 60U0 by the emperor Jahangfr, and died of drinking 1621 A. D., 1030 A. H. Two of his wives and eight concubines biirnt themselves on his funeral pyre. Among Jahangir's courtiers the rajas of Ambur were the most addicted to drinking. His eldest brother Jagat Singh, and Maka Singh his nephew, had Hkewise paid with their Hves for their drunken habits, but their fate was no lesson for Raja Bhau. Bhara Mai (Raja), "-^^ b^t^? fide Bihari Mai. Bhartptir, J>Ji *^tJ raja of, vide Churaman Jat. Bhaskar Acharya, ^^.J^"^^ J^^-j a most celebrated as- tronomer of the Hindus, who was born at Bidae, a city in the Dakhan, in the year of SaHvahana, 1036, correspond- ing with the year 1114 A. D., 6u8 A. H. He was the author of several treatises, of which the Lflawati and the Bija Ganita, relating to arithmetic, geometry and al- gebra, and the Siromanf, an astronomical treatise, are accounted the most valuable authorities in those sciences which India possesses. The Siromam is deUvered in two sections, the Gola-Adhyaya, or the Lecture on the Globe, and the Ganita Adhyaya, or the Lecture on Numbers, as applied to astronomy. The Lilawatf was translated into I'ersian by Faizi in the reign of Akbar, and an English translation has also been lately made by Dr. Taylor and published at Bombay. Bhaskar died at an advanced age, being upwards of 70 years. Lilawati was the name of his only daughter who died unmarried. Bhim Singh, *i^>, rana of TJdaipur, was Uving in 1750 A. D. Bhim Singh Rathour, .;->■<:-' L> (♦it^ He usurped the throne of Jodhpiir in 1793 A. D., on his grandfather's death by defeat of Zahm Singh, and died in 1803. He was succeeded by Man Singh. Bhim, (•■it- **^b> raja of Gujrat, in whose time Sultan Mahmud Ghaznawi took the famous temple of Sonuiath in 1027 A. D. Bhoj (Raja), ^^■^ *^b^ vide Eaja Bhoj. Bhori Rani, i^-*'; <SJ>yc^-, the last of the wives of Maharaja Eanjit Singh, she died childless at Labor on the 5th of April, 1872. Her adopted son Kiiwar Bhup Singh distributed large sums of money before and after her death as alms to the poor. The funeral was very grand. Her remains were burnt near the samddh of the late Ma- haraja, and the ashes were sent to be thrown into the Ganges at Hardwar. She drew a pension of 800 rupees per mensem from our Government and held jagirs of upwards of 60,000 rupees per annum. Bhuchchu, J^', vide Zarra. Bhuya, *d ^f-? c;'^, a nobleman of the court of Sultan Sikandar Lodi, who built the masjid Math in DehH, but was afterwards assassinated by that prince without any crime, only because people used to assemble at his place. Bibi Bai, i^^- t5^t5-, the sister of Muhammad Shah 'Adil king of DehH, married to Salim Shah Sur by whom she had a son named Firoz. After the death of Salim Shah, when Firoz, then an infant, was being murdered by his uncle Muhammad Shah, she defended her son for some time in her arms, presenting her body to the dagger, but her cruel brother tore the young prince from her embrace, and in her presence severed his head from his body. This event took place in May, 1564 A. D. BibiDaiQat Shad Begam, i^i^. <>^ '^■'j.i ^^^^^ the wives of the emperor Akbar and the mother of Shakr- unnisa Begam, who survived her father, and died in the time of Jahangir. Bibi Marwarid, '^i)bj'° i^^-i wife of the late Amir Afzal Khan, died in September, 1874 A. D. Bibi Zinda Abadi, KS'^i'^ 1>'^j commonly called Bibi Jind Wadi by the people of Uchcha, was one of the descendants of Sayyad Jalal. She is buried at Uchcha in Multan. The dome in which she rests is erected of burnt bricks and cemented by mortar. The whole of the edifice is ornamented by various hues, and lapis lazuli of the celebrated mines of Badakhshan. The size of this grand building may be estimated at 50 feet high, and the cir- cumference 25. Bihari Lai, Lilj't^j a celebrated Hindi poet, called by Gilchrist the Thomson of the Hindus, and much admired among them ; he appears to have flourished about the beginning of the 16th century. Being informed that his prince Jaisah of Jaipur was so infatuated with the beauty of a very young girl he had married, as to neglect entirely the affair's of his country ; for he never came abroad, hav- ing shut himself up to contemplate the fascinating charms of his beauteous, though immature bride ; Bihari boldly ventured to admonish him by bribing a slave girl to con- vey a couplet, which he had composed, under his pillow ; the translation of which is thus given by Gilchrist, " When the flower blooms, what will be the situation of the tree, that is now captivated with a bud, in which there is neither fragrance, sweets, or colour." This had not only the desired elfect of rousing the prince from his lethargy, but excited in his breast a genei'ous regard for the man, whose advice came so seasonably and ele- gantly disguised. Bihari received, ever after, a pension from court, with a present of more than one thousand pounds, for a work he published under the name of " Sat- sai," from its consisting of seven hundred couplets. Bihari Mai, t£^hr^j also called Bharamal and Puran- mal, a r&ja of Ambhar or Ameir, now Jaipur, was a rajput