“Give me, O best of celestials, a child endued with great strength and largeness of limbs and capable of humbling the pride of every body.”

—  Kunti

Kunti to Vayu.
The god of wind thereupon begat upon her the child afterwards known as Bhima of mighty arms and fierce prowess.
The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXIII

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