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• a name of Agni
  Agni
  
  Agni is a Hindu and Rigvedic deities. The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire" , cognate with Latin ignis , Russian ????? , Polish "ogien," Lithuanian - ugnis - all with the meaning 'fire' -, with the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root being h1?gni-....
  
• a name of Rudra
  Rudra
  
  Rudra is a Rigvedic deities of the storm, the wind, and the hunt. The name has been translated as "Roarer", "Howler", "Wild One", and "Terrible"....
  
• a name of Manu
  Manu (Hinduism)
  
  In Hindu traditions, Manu is a title accorded to the First man or woman, and also the very first king to rule this earth, who saved mankind from the universal flood....
  , according to the Vishnu Purana
  Vishnu Purana
  
  The Vishnu Purana is a religious Hindu text and one of eighteen Puranas. It is considered one of the most important Puranas and has been given the name Puranaratna ....
  
• Bharata (emperor)
  Bharata (emperor)
  
  'Bharata' is a legendary king in Hindu mythology. He was the first to conquer all of Greater India, uniting it into a single entity which was named after him as ....
  , a celebrated hero and monarch of India, first of twelve Cakravartins ("universal emperors")
• Bharata (Ramayana), a son of Dasharatha, younger brother of Rama
  RAMA
  
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• Bharata (Bhagavata), the eldest of a hundred sons of a saintly king by name Rishabha according to the Bhagavata Purana
  Bhagavata purana
  
  The Bhagavata Purana is one of the "Maha" Puranic texts of Hinduism literature, and is Sanskrit for "The Book of God". Its primary focus is the process of bhakti yoga, which is Sanskrit for "Union with God through devotion for Him", in which Krishna is unequivocally declared to be Svayam Bhagavan....
  
• Bharata Muni
  Bharata Muni
  
  Bharata was an ancient Indian musicologist who authored the Natya Shastra of Bharata, a theoretical treatise on ancient Indian dramaturgy and histrionics, dated to between roughly 400 BC and 200 BC....
  , the author of the Natyashastra

• the Sanskrit
  Sanskrit
  
  Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
   and Hindi
  Hindi
  
  Standard Hindi, also known as High Hindi, Nagari Hindi or Literary Hindi is a Standard language register of Hindi. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and is used, along with English language, for administration of the central government....
   (then pronounced "Bharat") name of India
  India
  
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  .
• a name of Agni
  Agni
  
  Agni is a Hindu and Rigvedic deities. The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire" , cognate with Latin ignis , Russian ????? , Polish "ogien," Lithuanian - ugnis - all with the meaning 'fire' -, with the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root being h1?gni-....
  
• a rishi
  Rishi
  
  A rishi denotes a poet-sage through whom the Vedic hymns flowed, credited also as divine scribes. According to post-Vedic tradition the rishi is a "seer" or "shaman" to whom the Vedas were "originally revealed" through states of higher consciousness....
   (the author of RV 5.27, RV 3.23)
• the Bharatas
  Bharatas
  
  The Bharatas are an Aryan tribe mentioned in the Rigveda, especially in Mandala 3 attributed to the Bharata sage Vishvamitra. In the "Rigvedic rivers" RV 3.33, the entire Bharata tribe is described as crossing a river....
  , a Rigvedic tribe
• an early epic forming the core of the Mahabharata
  Mahabharata
  
  The is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetrys of History of India, the other being the '. The epic is part of the Hindu itihasa , and forms an important part of Hindu mythology....
   (comprising about a quarter of the extended epic)
• Bharatavarsha, "king Bharata's realm" i.e. India
  Greater India
  
  The term Greater India refers to the historical spread of the Culture of India beyond the Indian subcontinent proper. This concerns the spread of Hinduism in Southeast Asia in particular, introduced by the Indianized kingdoms of the 7th to 15th centuries, but may also extend to the earlier spread of Buddhism from India to Central Asia and C...
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• the Republic of India (properly, )
• Bharat merino
  Merino
  
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  , a breed
  Breed
  
  A breed is a group of Domestication with a Homogeneity appearance, behavior, and other characteristics that distinguish it from other animals of the same species....
   of sheep
  Sheep
  
  #REDIRECT Domestic sheep...
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• Bharat Petroleum
  Bharat Petroleum
  
  OverviewBharat Petroleum Corporation Limited is one of India's largest Public Sector Undertaking companies, with Global Fortune 500 rank of 287 ....
  

See also

• Etymology of the names of India