Bakta
bhakta , nt. ( Skt. ) food , is occasionally used instead of bhojya of specifically soft food , in contrast with khādya or khajja, hard food ; so in Mv iii.39.4 bhakta-khajjam, see khajja ; and more clearly iii.15.9 (tasya prabhūtaṃ [Page404-1b] khādya-bhojyaṃ) dinnaṃ, mahantaṃ gopiṭakaṃ khajjakasya, mahatī ca alindā bhaktasya …, which is resumed below, l. 12, by taṃ khajjakasya gopiṭakaṃ ekadukāye sarvam khāditaṃ, sā ca odanasya mahatī alindā … Here [Page405-a] it is obvious that bhakta is not only contrasted with khajjaka but identified with odana, which is regularly the food put in an alindā or °da , q.v.