Pāli Dictionary

vājapeyya

vājastempeyyasuffix

Part of speech

noun · neuter

cosmology

  • バラモン教のソーマ祭祀の一種（力飲祭）

  • the vājapeya sacrifice, a soma offering; a kind of (brahmanical) sacrifice

  • SN 3.9

    assamedhaṃ purisamedhaṃ, sammāpāsaṃ vājapeyyaṃ niraggaḷhaṃ, mahāyaññā mah'ārambhā, na te honti mahapphalā.

Encyclopedia

Vājapeyya
Other

  • 注釈書で二通りに説明される祭式で、一つは人々に優しく心地よい言葉で挨拶することであり、もう一つはソーマ酒を飲み十七頭の動物を十七回にわたって捧げる祭祀である。

  • 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.

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