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भुक्ष (bhukSa)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
bhukṣa, adj. (= AMg. bhukkha, Ratnach.
cf. next two
all from unreduplicated desiderative stem = Skt. bubhukṣ-, lacking first syllable
such forms are well established in Pkt., tho ignored in Pischel and, so far as I am aware, in other Pkt. grammars
they live on in modern vernaculars, cf. Hindi bhūkh, subst., bhūkhā, adj., and Turner, Nepali Dict., s.vv. bhok, bhoko, etc.), hungry: bhukṣa-pipāsitā madhukarāḥ kusumam abhigatāḥ LV 〔328.12〕 (vs).