bhojaka

  1. one who provides food, attendant at meals Ja.v.413.
  2. (is this from bhuñjati2 & bhujissa?) one who draws the benefit of something, owner, holder, in; gāma˚; landholder, village headman (see Dial. i.108 n. & Fick, Sociale Gliederung 104 sq.) Ja.i.199, Ja.i.354, Ja.i.483; Ja.ii.135 (= gāmapati, gāmajeṭṭhaka); Ja.v.413; Dhp-a.i.69. Cp. bhojanaka.

fr. bhuj, bhojeti