Pāli Dictionary

Vājapeyya

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A sacrificial rite explained two ways in the Commentaries: greeting people with kind and pleasant speech, or a sacrifice in which soma is drunk and seventeen animals are offered seventeen times over.

A sacrificial offering; the Commentaries (e.g., ItvA. 75, 76) give it two interpretations:

Greeting people kindly with soft and pleasant speech (peyyavajjam, piyavācatā);

A sacrifice in which Soma (Vāja) is drunk.

In the second seventeen animals are offered seventeen times.

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