bhasta (nt.)

1. a bellows Thag.1134; Ja.vi.12 (vāta-puṇṇa-bhasta-camma, skin of bellows full of wind); Snp-a.171 (vāta-pūrita-bhastrā viya), Snp-a.494 (vātabharita˚); Dhp-a.i.442 (bhastaṃ dhamāpeti); Vism.287
2. a sack Thag.1151; Thag.2, Thag.466 (T. reads gatta, but Thag-a.283 reads bhasta & explains as “camma-pasibbaka”) Ja.iii.346 (sattu˚ = sattu pasibbaka flour sack); Ja.v.45 Thag-a.212 (udaka˚). biḷāra-bhastā a bag of catskin MN.i.128 (= biḷāra-camma-pasibbaka Bdhgh); Thag.1138.

cp. Class. Sk. bhastrā (also one MBh. passage), orig. n. ag. fr. bhas (to bark?), lit bellower, blower