Bhima Kunda, Water tank near Bhimesvara Temple in Bhubaneswar, India

Bhima Kunda is a square tank measuring 38.10 square metres and 5.50 metres deep, cut directly into the laterite bedrock west of the Bhimesvara Temple precinct in Kapila Prasad, Old Town, Bhubaneswar. Its four sides are formed by the sectioned laterite bed, with dressed laterite blocks building up the embankments. A bathing ghat with flights of steps leads down from the southern embankment.

Bhima Kunda was cut directly into the laterite bedrock, and the section left after excavation served as the tank's walls on all four sides; the embankment is built of dressed laterite blocks laid in dry masonry. The sources record no founding date or patron, and its past use could not be ascertained. It is now maintained by the Bhimesvara Temple Development Committee and graded B for architecture and associational value, C for historic value.

Bhima Kunda is used for temple rituals and ordinary bathing, and the Bhimesvara Temple Development Committee maintains it. On Kartika Purnima, pinda offerings are made here. The tank also hosts mundanakriya, the first-haircut rite, which ties the water to family ceremonies as well as daily worship.

The tank lies just outside the western wall of the Bhimesvara Temple precinct, with the Bhubaneswar–Jatani road to its west. Bathers enter by the southern ghat, where flights of steps lead down to the water. The tank is seasonal and dries up in summer, so the basin may be empty outside the wet months.

Bhima Kunda is a seasonal tank: the water dries up in summer, leaving the cut laterite walls of all four sides exposed. The tank is square on plan, 38.10 square metres, with a depth of 5.50 metres, and its embankments are built of dressed laterite blocks in dry masonry. Wild vegetation now grows on its outer wall, the reason its state of preservation is rated bad.