The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Bhasita
Bhasita 1. see bhasati. -- 2. pp. of bhas "crumbled to ashes" see bhasma.
Bhasta
Bhasta [cp. Vedic basta] a he -- goat J iii.278.
Bhast!
Bhast! (f.) & bhasta (nt.) [cp. Class. Sk. bhastr! (also one MBh. passage), orig. n. ag. fr. bhas (to bark?), lit.
bellower, blower] 1. a bellows Th 1, 1134; J vi.12 (v!ta -- pu**a -- bhasta -- camma, skin of bellows full of
wind); SnA 171 (v!ta -- p(rita -- bhastr! viya), 494 (v!tabharita˚); DhA i.442 (bhasta' dham!peti); Vism
287. -- 2. a sack Th 1, 1151; 2, 466 (T. reads gatta, but ThA 283 reads bhasta & expls as "camma --
pasibbaka"); J iii.346 (sattu˚= sattu pasibbaka flour sack); v.45; ThA 212 (udaka˚). bi)!ra -- bhast! a bag of
catskin M i.128 (=bi)!ra -- camma -- pasibbaka Bdhgh); Th 1, 1138.
Bhasma(n)
Bhasma(n) (nt.) [cp. Vedic bhasman (adj.); Sk. bhasman (n.), originally ppr. of bhas to chew & thus n --
stem. It has passed into the a -- decl. in Pali, except in the loc. bhasmani (S i.169). Etymologically &
semantically bhasman is either "chewing" or "anything chewed (small)," thus meaning particle, dust, sand,
etc.; and bhas is another form of ps! (cp. Sk. ps! morsel of food, ps!ta hungry=P. ch!ta). Idg. *bhs! &
*bhsam, represented in Gr. yw/xw to grind, ya/ mmos & yw_xos sand; Lat. sabulum sand. The Dhtp 326 &
Dhtm 452 explain bhas by bhasm"kara*a "reduce to ashes," a pp. of it is bhasita; it also occurs in Sk. loc.
bhasi] ashes S i.169=Nd2 576 (loc. bhasmani); Vv 8444; J iii.426; Vism 469 (in comparison). -- ant!huti
(bhasm' ant' !huti) "whose sacrifice ends in ashes" D i.55 (so read for bhassant˚, according to DA i.166, &
cp. Franke, D"gha Nik!ya p. 60); M i.515; S iii.207. -- âcchanna covered by ashes Dh 71 (=ch!rik!ya
pa&ichanna DhA ii.68); J vi.236 (. . . va p!vaka). -- pu&a a sack for ashes DA i.267 (as expln for assa -- pu&a
of D. i.98; fanciful; see assa1). -- bh!va "ashy" state, state of being crumbled to dust VvA 348.
Bhassa
Bhassa (nt.) [cp. Class. Sk. bh!+ya, of bh!+] speech, conversation, way of talking, disputation Sn 328 (v. l.
for hassa); It 71; Miln 90; Vism 127 (grouped into fit talk, as the 10 kath! -- vatthus, and unfit talk or
gossip, as the 32 tiracch!na -- kath!). -- k!raka one who makes talk, i. e. invites disputation, or one who
gossips Vin i.1; Nd1 142; f. ˚k!rik! Vin iv.230. -- pav!daka one who proposes disputation, one who is fond
of debate & discussions M i.161, 227 (˚ika); Miln 4. -- pavedin one experienced in debating Miln 90. --
sam!c!ra (good) conduct in speech, proficiency in disputation D iii.106. -- samussaya grandiloquence,
proud talk Sn 245 (cp. SnA 288=att'ukka'sanat! ti vutta' hoti).
Bhassati
Bhassati [bhran$, Sk. bhra$yate] to fall down, drop, to droop (Dhtp 455 & Dhtm 695: adho -- patane &
adhop!te) J iv.223; vi.530. ppr. bhassam!na Miln 82; pret. 3rd sg. bhassittha J ii.274 (cp. pabhassittha Vin
ii.135), & abhassittha S i.122 (so read for abhassatha). -- pp. bha&&ha1.
Bhassara
Bhassara (adj. n.) [fr. bh!s] 1. (adj.) shining, resplendent J v.169 (C. pabhassara). -- 2. N. of a bird J vi.538
(=sata -- ha'sa C.). -- Cp. !˚, pa˚.
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