puzpapuwa
puṣpa-puṭa , nt. , °pūṭa , m. , °pūṭī , f. , flower-sheath, calyx : so Tib. me tog gi phur ma ( acc. to Das ) on Mvy 6112 °puṭam, n. sg. , in list of ‘articles of worship’ (pūjāpariṣkārāḥ), between cūrṇa and gandha; Sukh shows how they were used, viz. , thrown upon a Buddha, or up in [Page350-a] the air where they remain magically fixed and form umbrellas; in Sukh the forms are puṣpa-pūṭī 49.5 and 50.9 , or gandha-pūṭī, fragrant calyx (of a flower), 50.1 , but puṣpa-pūṭa, masc. , in 50.13 (all these are in vss ) and, in prose, 57.11 ff. , repeatedly, always with ā ; Müller renders the second member handfull , BR Düte , but the use in Sukh confirms Tib. on Mvy . It is, to be sure, doubtless connected with Skt. puṭa, puṭī, pockét , cavity, container , etc.