Bhasma(n) (nt.) [cp. Vedic bhasman (adj.); Sk. bhasman (n.), originally ppr. of bhas to chew & thus n -- stem. It has passed into the a -- decl. in Pali, except in the loc. bhasmani (S i.169). Etymologically & semantically bhasman is either "chewing" or "anything chewed (small)," thus meaning particle, dust, sand, etc.; and bhas is another form of psā (cp. Sk. psā morsel of food, psāta hungry=P. chāta). Idg. *bhsā & *bhsam, represented in Gr. yw/xw to grind, ya/mmos & yw_xos sand; Lat. sabulum sand. The Dhtp 326 & Dhtm 452 explain bhas by bhasmīkaraṇa "reduce to ashes," a pp. of it is bhasita; it also occurs in Sk. loc. bhasi] ashes S i.169=Nd2 576 (loc. bhasmani); Vv 8444; J iii.426; Vism 469 (in comparison).   -- antāhuti (bhasm' ant' āhuti) "whose sacrifice ends in ashes" D i.55 (so read for bhassant˚, according to DA i.166, & cp. Franke, Dīgha Nikāya p. 60); Mi.515; S iii.207. -- âcchanna covered by ashes Dh 71 (=chārikāya paṭichanna DhA ii.68); J vi.236 (. . . va pāvaka). -- puṭa a sack for ashes DA i.267 (as expln for assa -- puṭa of D. i.98; fanciful; see assa1). -- bhāva "ashy" state, state of being crumbled to dust VvA 348.