The corpus record — Sanskrit

basta

baṣṭa m. ( Prākṛ. ) = mūrkha, a fool, L.

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Where it lives

Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. baṣṭa

baṣṭa m. ( Prākṛ. ) = mūrkha, a fool, L.

2. بَستَ

basta m. (also written vasta) a goat, RV. ; &c.

3. bāsta

bāsta mf(ī)n. ( fr. basta) coming from a goat (taṃcarma, a goat-skin), Mn. ii, 41.

In the wild

basta Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,4.4
bastau Chandogya Upanisad chup_3,19.3

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. basta (vol. 3, scan p. 740; entry #11255).

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.