The name of a caste, classified among the despised castes (e.g., A.ii.85; M.ii.152). The Commentary explains (e.g., AA.ii.523) them as “those who sweep up flowers that are offered at shrines and are not removed by the devotees who have given them.” The word Pukkusa was evidently not despised as a personal name because, in the case of Pukkusa (3), for instance, the person bearing the name was of the warrior caste (khattiya).