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Ambiguity: Although Bhav has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Bhava.
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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryBhav in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) the world; mundane existence; birth; Lord Shiv; ~[cakra] the perpetual wheel of birth and death; ~[jala] the bond of existence; ~[tapa] the mundane afflictions; ~[pasha-bamdhana] the mundane bond, the bond of existence, the inevitability of recurrent births and deaths:~[bhaya] the fear of recurrent births and deaths; ~[bhiti] see~[bhaya; ~mocana] God—who liberates the soul from worldly bonds; -[samudra sagara/simdhu] the ocean of mundane existence..—bhav (भव) is alternatively transliterated as Bhava.
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Starts with (+892): Bhava, Bhava Ditthi, Bhava ganesha dikshita, Bhava ramakrishna, Bhava Rupa, Bhava sadashiva bhatta, Bhava Sutta, Bhava-amantraka, Bhava-amantrana, Bhava-shravaka, Bhavaa, Bhavabadhe, Bhavabadu, Bhavabala, Bhavabandha, Bhavabandhan, Bhavabandhana, Bhavabandhesha, Bhavabdhi, Bhavabdhinavinavika.
Ends with (+11): Abhav, Abhibhav, Antarbhav, Anubhav, Asambhav, Atmanubhav, Avirbhav, Avyayibhav, Durbhav, Ekantabhav, Ghanibhav, Haavbhaav, Mahanubhav, Manobhav, Nibhav, Nishprabhav, Parabhav, Prabhav, Pradurbhav, Prakruti-bhav.
Full-text (+8): Bhava-amantraka, Akasara, Prakruti-bhav, Vimishrita, Pharapharayate, Bhavanandi, Evala, Kamogha, Vidrapayati, Bhavivadikatha, Shramanya, Sthapayati, Sthapeti, Vanika, Mushandhi, Thapeti, Abhiramya, Chutta, Paripricchana, Bhavagra.
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Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Seventeen kinds of grain < [Notes]
Appendix 1.5: The 108 Qualities of the Pañcaparameṣṭhins < [Appendices]
Parables of Rama (by Swami Rama Tirtha)
Story 265 - Refinement of egocentric desires for attaining eternal life & happiness < [Chapter LVII - Egoism]
Jainism and Patanjali Yoga (Comparative Study) (by Deepak bagadia)
Part 5.6 - Tattvarthasutra: the summary of Agamas < [Chapter 3 - Jain Philosophy and Practice]
Ten rituals of the Temple < [Chapter 3 - Jain Philosophy and Practice]
Six Avasyakas (essentials) < [Chapter 3 - Jain Philosophy and Practice]
Lord Jhulelal: An Analytical Study (by Thakkar Harish Gopalji)
Part 5.1 - Lord Jhulelal’s Iconography < [Chapter 4 - Analysis]
A Manual of Abhidhamma (by Nārada Thera)
The Law of Dependent Arising < [Chapter VIII - The Compendium Of Relations]
Gati in Theory and Practice (by Dr. Sujatha Mohan)
Literary and dramatic elements in Nāṭyaśāstra < [Chapter 1 - Nāṭya]