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Bha (indecl.) the letter or sound (syllable) bh :
figuring
in Bdhgh's exegesis of the X. Bhagava as representing
bhnva, whereas ga stands for gamana, va for vantu
KhA loy. — Like ba° we often find bha° mixed up
with pa ; — see e. g. bhanda bhandati ; bh represents
b. in bhasta = Sk. basta. bhisa = Sk. bisa. bhusa=Sk.
busa. —bha-kara the sound (or ending) bha, which
at Vin IV.- is given as implying contempt or abuse,
among other low terms (hina akkosa). This refers also
to the sound (ending) 'ya (see ya-kara). The expl"
for this probably is that °bha is abstracted from words
ending thus, where the word itself meant something
inferior or contemptible, and this shade of meaning was
regarded as inhering in the ending, not in the root of
the word, as e. g. in ibbha (menial).
Bhakati (f) [cp. Epic Sk. bhrakuti from older bhrkuti,
bhrukuti or bhrukutij superciliousness Sn 483. J
III. 99 ; Visra j6 ("karana) ; SnA 412. Der. bhakutika
(q. v.). See also bhukuti.
Bhakkha {-°) (adj.) [fr. bhak;] i. eating, feeding on D
111.41 (saka^ etc.); S 1.69 (pahiita" voracious, of fire),
238 (kodha°) ; Pv 1.9I (lohita-pubba') ; Pug 55 (tina")
Sdhp 388 (tina°). — 2. eatable, to be eaten; nt. 'g
food, prey, in cpd. appa-bhakkha ottering no food
Vv 84^ (appodaka+ ). — pi. also bhakkha (eatables)
J II. 14; IV. 241 (similar context; =bhojana C.) ; Pv
11.9*' (=ahara PvA 129). It is to be pointed out that
bhakkha occurs in poetry, in stock phrase " dibba
bhakkha patubhavanti " ; cp. Vedic bhaksa (m) feeding,
partaking of food, esp. drink (of Soma), thus something
extraordinary.
Bbakkhati [bhak; fr. bhaj, cp. Sk. bhaksati \- bhaksayati
Dhtp 17 c^ 537 expl" by " adana "] to eat, to feed
upon Pv II. 2* (pubba-lohitar)) ; Dh.\ 11.57 (vatar)). —
inf. bhakkhitug J 11.14. — Cans, bhakkheti in same
cp. BSk. bhak-
meaning J iv.349 (aor. bhakkhesug) ;
§ayati Divy 276.
Bhaga [Vedic bhaga, bhaj, see bhagavant etc.] luck, lot,
fortun". only in cpd. dub° (adj.) unhappy, unpleasant,
uncomfortable It 90 ;
DA
1.96 ('karana). —bhaga (in
verse " bhagehi ca vibhattava " in exegesis of word
" Bhagava") at DA 1.34 read bhava, as read at id. p.
Vism 210.
Bhagandala (& a) [cp. late Sk. bhagandara] an ulcer, fistula
Vin 1.2 i6r 272 : Ndi 370. Has expl° at Dhtm 204
" bhaganda secane hoti " (" comes from sprinkling ")
anything to do with our word ?
Bha(;alavant [of uncertain origin] N. of a mountain SnA
197 (loc. Bhagalavati pabbate). Occurs also as an
assembly-hall under the N. of Bhagalavati at D 111.201.
Cp. Kirfel, Kosmographie 196.
Bhagavant (adj. n.) [cp. Vedic bhagavant, fr. bhaga]
fortunate, illustrious, sublime, as Ep. and title
"Lord." Thus applied to the Buddha (amhakar) Bh.)
and his predecessors. Occurs with extreme frequency ;
Bh.
119
of fanciful exegetic expl"" of the terra iv: its meaning we
mention e. g. those at Nd' 142 =Nd2 400 Vism 210 ; sq. ;
DA 1.33 sq. Usual trs. Blessed One, Exalted One.
Bhagini (f.) [Epic Sk. bhagini] a sister J vi.32. The
popular etym. of bh. as given at VbhA 108 is the same
as that for bhatar, viz. " bhagati ti bh." — Cpd.
bhagini-mala a " sister garland " (?) N. of a tree J
VI. 270 ( =upari-bhaddaka).
Bhagga' ]ip. of bhanj, Sk. bhagna] broken, in phrases
" sabba te phasuka bhagga " J 1.493, which is applied
metaphorically at Dh 154 (phasuka =papaka ?), expl*
DIiA 111.12S (artificially) by " avasesa-kilesa-phasuka
bhagga " ; further " bhagga papaka dhamma " Vism
211; bhagga kilesa Miln 44 ; and bhagga-raga, °dosa
etc. (in def. of Bhagava) at Nd' 142 =Nd- 466 B, quoted
at Vism 211,
Bhagga- (nt.) [fr. bhaga; cp. Sk. & P. bhagya] fortune,
good luck, welfare, happiness Visra 210 (akasi °i) ti
garu ti Bhagyava etc.).
Bhaggava cp. Sk. *bhargava, a der. fr. bhrgu, & bhargah,
of same root as Lat. fulgur lightning ; Gr. ^Xit light ;
Ger. blitzen, blank ; Ags. blanca white horse, all of the
idea of " shining, bright, radiant." — How the meaning
" potter " is connected with this meaning, is still a
problem, perhaps we have to take the word merely as
an Epithet at the one passage where it occurs, which
happens to be in the Kumbhakara-jataka, v. 6, 7. i. e.
the " Jataka of the potter"] potter (?)
in voc. bhaggava (m.) iS; bhaggavi (f.).
J in. 381, 382,
The terms are
not expl"" in C, evidently because somewhat obscure.
According to Kern, Toev. s. v. the Sk. form in this
meaning occurs
MVastu 111.347.
at MBh. 1.190, 47; Saddhp. 191 sq.,
Bhaggavant (adj. n.) [fr. bhagga-, cp. Sk. & P. bhagyavant]
having good luck or auspices, fortunate ; in def.
of "Bhagava" at Vism 2io=DA 1.34 ("bhagyava
bhaggava yutto") ; with ref. to the 4 qualities implied
in the word " bhagava," which passage is alluded to
at \'vA 231 by remark " bhagyavantat' adihi catuhi
karaijehi Bhagava."
Bhanga' (nt.) [cp. Sk. bhanga, which occurs already
Atharva-veda xi. 0. 15 (see Zimmer. Altind. Leben 68),
also Av. bagha, Polish pienka hemp. On its possible
etym. connection with Vedic sana (Ath. Veda 11. 4. 5)
= P. Sana &. Sana hemp (=Gr. Kuvvajiii;, Ger. hanf,
E. hemp) see Walde, I.at. 1176. s. v. cannabis] hemp
coarse hempen cloth Vin 1.58 (where comb'' with sana).
Bhanga- (nt.) [cp. Class. Sk. bhanga. fr. bhanj : see bhanjati]
I. (lit.) breaking, breaking olf, in sakha" a layer
of broken-off branches J 111.407. — 2. (fig.) breaking
up, dissolution, disruption (see on form Cpil. 23. 00)
Ps 1.57 sq. ('anupassana insight into disruption), quoted
& expl"" at Vism O40 sq. ; \'bh.\ 27 (^khana) ; Sdhp 48,
78 (asa°). Cp. vi".