Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c35.740
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c35.740
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v2.c35.740
Vājapeyya.—A sacrificial offering; the Commentaries¹ give it two interpretations: (1) Greeting people kindly with soft and pleasant speech (peyyavajjaṃ, piyavācatā); (2) a sacrifice in which Soma (Vāja) is drunk. In the second seventeen animals are offered seventeen times.