1. Bhūri
feminine the earth; given as name for the earth (paṭhavi) at Pts.ii.197; see also def. at Dhs-a.147. Besides these only in 2 doubtful compounds, both resting on demonology, viz. bhūrikamma DN.i.12, explained as “practices to be observed by one living in a bhūrighara or earth-house” (?) DN-a.i.97, but cp. Vedic bhūri-karman “much effecting”; and bhūrivijjā DN.i.9, explained as “knowledge of charms to be pronounced by one living in an earth-house” (?) DN-a.i.93. See Dial. i.18, i.25. The meaning of the terms is obscure there may have been (as Kern rightly suggests: see Toevoegselen s. v.) quite a diff. popular practice behind them which was unknown to the later Commentator. Kern suggests that bhūri-vijjā might be a secret science to find gold (digging for it: science of hidden treasures) and -kamma might be “making gold” (alchemistic science). Perhaps the term bhumma-jāla is to be connected with these two.
cp. late Sk. bhūr