One who wards off hailstones from the standing crops.

Subcaste of Jogi.
_Bashishta_ .-- See Vasishta.

A section of Vidur.
_Bastarha_ .-- A resident of Bastar State.

Subcaste of Halba.
_Bathri_ .-- (From _batkur_, a vegetable.) A subcaste of Dhobi and Teli.
_Bathudia_ .-- Subcaste of Bhuiya.
_Batri_ .-- A grower of _batar_, a kind of pea.

Subcaste of Teli.
_Batti_ .-- (A ball.) A subsept of the Uika clan of Gonds in Betul, so named because their priest stole balls of cooked mahua.