Dictionary Definition ：
Definition[1]
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Vājapeyya
A sacrificial offering; the Commentaries (E.g., ItvA. 75, 76) give it two interpretations:
- (1) Greeting people kindly with soft and pleasant speech (peyyavajjam, piyavācatā);
- (2) a sacrifice in which Soma (Vāja) is drunk.
In the second seventeen animals are offered seventeen times.
Source
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Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from
Definition[2]
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vājapeyya : [nt.] a kind of sacrifice.
Source
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A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[3]
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Vājapeyya [cp. Vedic vājapeya; see Macdonell, Vedic Mythology pp. 131 sq., 155, quoting Weber, Vājapeya; Banerjea, Public Administration etc. 92] the vājapeya sacrifice, a soma offering. Spelling often vāca˚ (mostly as v. l.); see S i.76; A ii.42; iv.151; Sn 303; It 21; Miln 219; J iii.518. Cp. peyya2.
Source
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Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
Related
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vajati , vaji , vājin , vajira , vajirā sutta , vajamāna , vajalla , vajagaragiri vihāra , vajadvāra , vajaāṇa
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