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Wish you and the Chimna bhu-bhu many many happy times together.
Chimi is here ~~ Anjali 2009
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Our Dale bhu-bhu began showing some strange symptoms a couple of weeks ago.
Archive 2008-03-01 Nupur 2008
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According to VD Savarkar, the father of Hindutva, anyone who whose pitra bhu (fatherland) and punya bhu (holy land) is any where in undivided India is a part of the Indic civilization and therefore a Hindu; the others – basically Muslims and Christians are foreigners.
Changing Gods by Rudolf Heredia : A Review of Religious Conversion Shantanud 2008
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Skeat traces it eventually to Sanskrit _bhu_, to be, build meaning "to construct a place in which to be or dwell."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The Bhuwar sept are named after _bhu_ or _bhumi_, the earth.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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The name Bhuiya is a Sanskrit derivative from _bhu_, earth, and signifies 'belonging to the soil.'
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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That no God of any religion can be more of a mere hypothesis than _as_, _bhu_, and _sta_, never seems to have occurred to
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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And later, when Mr Arnold is trying to cope with Descartes, he flies for refuge to "the roots _as_, _bhu_, and _sta_."
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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To frown on Oberon and caress Bottom is venial compared with the dismissal of the Bible as popular legend, and the implicit belief in _as_, _bhu_, and _sta_.
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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Miracles are fictions, and the scenes in the garden of Eden and at the Sepulchre never happened; but _as_, _bhu_, and _sta_ are very solemn facts, and you can find out all about the Divinity, because the word
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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