feminine · bhastā 1 · bhastā 2
bellows
the bellows; a leather bag
Bhastā (feminine) and Bhasta (neuter) [cf. Classical Sanskrit bhastrā (also one MBh passage), original agent noun from bhas (to bark?), literally bellower, blower] 1. a bellows Thag 1134; Ja VI 12 (vāta-puṇṇa-bhasta-camma, skin of bellows full of wind); Pj II 171 (vāta-pūrita-bhastrā viya), 494 (vātabharita°); Dhp-a I 442 (bhastaṃ dhamāpeti); Vism 287. 2. a sack Thag 1151; 2, 466 (Text reads gatta, but Thig-a 283 reads bhasta and explains as "camma-pasibbaka"); Ja III 346 (sattu° = sattu pasibbaka flour sack); V 45; Thig-a 212 (udaka°). biḷāra-bhastā a bag of catskin M I 128 (= biḷāra-camma-pasibbaka Buddhaghosa); Thag 1138.
【陰】 風箱，皮袋。
(fem, fem) body leather bag [lit.] leather bag
(fem, fem) bellows bellows [lit.] leather bag