Room temperature spontaneous magnetization and dielectric anomaly at Neel temperature are observed in 15% Eu doped bismuth ferrite indicating the multiferroic nature of the sample. With 15% Eu doping structural transformation from rhombohedral to triclinic is observed. Fe~(3+) and Eu~(3+) oxidation states are observed from ~(57)Fe and ~(151)Eu Mossbauer measurements, respectively. The high field ~(57)Fe Mossbauer spectrum in longitudinal geometry shows an enhancement in the intensity of lines corresponding to △m-0 transitions, i.e., second and fifth lines in six line pattern. This observation suggests that the origin of spontaneous magnetization is due to weak ferromagnetism of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya type.
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