[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.265.1 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.265.1 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.265.1 - **Language:** English ### [c5.265.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.265.1) BHĪMA, BHĪMA-SENA. ‘The terrible.’ The second of the five Pāṇḍu princes, and mythically son of Vāyu, ‘the god of the wind.’ He was a man of vast size, and had great strength. He was wrathful in temper, and given to abuse, a brave warrior, but a fierce and cruel foe, coarse in taste and manners, and a great feeder, so that he was called Vrikodara, ‘wolf’s belly.’ Half of the food of the family was allotted to him, and the other half sufficed for his four brothers and their mother. The weapon he generally used was a club, which suited his gigantic strength, and he had been trained in the use of it by Droṇa and Balārāma. His great strength excited the envy of his cousin Duryodhana, who poisoned him and threw his body into the Ganges; but it sank to the realm of the serpents, where it was restored to health and vigour, and Bhīma returned to Hastināpura. At the passage of arms at Hastināpura, he and Duryodhana engaged each other with clubs; but the mimic combat soon turned into a fierce personal conflict, which Droṇa had to put an end to by force. It was at this same meeting that he reviled Karṇa, and heaped contempt upon him, increasing and converting into bitter hatred the enmity which Karṇa had previously entertained against the Pāṇḍavas. - [Previous: c5.264](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.264) - [Next: c5.265.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.265.2) - [Up: c5.265](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.265) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.265.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.265.1) · Pramāṇa