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Yajati Yaṭṭhi

D i.138 (yiṭṭhu — kāma wishing to sacrifice), and yaṭṭhuṁ in their influence was demonic (cp. Pv i.4).
°kāma D ii.244; Sn 461. — ger. yajitvā D i.143; A ii.44; Sn The prevailing meaning of yañña in the Suttapiṭaka is that
509; J vi.137 (puttehi), 202; Pv ii.9 56 (datvā+, i. e. spending of "gift, oblation to the bhikkhu, alms-giving." Cp. Sn 295,
liberally; cp. PvA 136); yajitvāna Sn 303, 979. — grd. ya- 461, 484, 1043. At Vv 34 26 the epithets "su — dinna, su —
jitabba J vi.133 (sabbacatukkena). — pp. yajita & yiṭṭha. huta, su — yiṭṭha" are attributed to dāna. — The 3 constituents
— Caus. I. yājeti; Caus. II. yajāpeti (q. v.). which occur under dāna & deyyadhamma as the gift, the giver
and the recipient of the gift (i. e. the Sangha: cp. opening
Yajana (nt.) [late formation fr. yaj, yajati, for the earlier yañña] 1 d
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the act of sacrificing J iii.518; vi.133; Cp. I. 7 ; Vism 224; stanza Pv i ) are similarly enum under yañña (or yaññapatha)
as "ye yaññaṁ (viz. cīvaraṁ etc.) esanti" those who wish for a
PvA 135.
gift, "ye yaññaṁ abhisankharonti" those who get it ready, and
Yajanaka (adj.) [fr. yajana] one who sacrifices J vi.133. 2
"ye yaññaṁ denti" those who give it, at Nd 70 (under appa-
Yajāpeti [Caus. II. of yajati] to cause a sacrifice to be held A i.168 matta). Similarly we find the threefold division of "yañña"
(yajati+). (=cīvara etc.), "yaññayājaka" (=khattiyā, brāhmaṇā etc., in-
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cluding all 8 classes of men: see Nd p. 129 s. v. khattiya,
Yajita [pp. of yajati] sacrificed Miln 219; J iv.19.
b
quoted under jana ), and "dakkhiṇeyya" (the recipient of the
Yajubbeda [fr. Vedic yajus the sacrificial formula,+veda] the Ya- gift, viz. samaṇa — brāhmaṇā, kapaṇ'addhikā vanibbakā, yā-
nd
jurveda, the 2 of the Vedas, dealing with sacrifice Miln 178; 2 b
cakā) at Nd 449 (under puthū). — Cp. the foll. (mixed)
DA i.247; SnA 447. As yajuveda at Dpvs v.62, where the 3 passages: D i.97, 128 — 144 (brahmanic criticised); ii.353,
d
Vedas are enum as iruveda, yaju° and sāma°.
354 (profitable and unprofitable, criticised); M i.82 (brahm.);
Yañña [Vedic yajña, fr. yaj: see yajati. The metric reading in S i.76, 160; ii.42 sq., 63, 207; iii.337; iv.41; A i.166; ii.43
the Veda is sometimes yajana, which we are inclined to look (nirārambhaṁ yaññaṁ upasankamanti arahanto, cp. DhsA
upon as not being the source of the P. yajana] 1. a brahmanic 145); Sn 308 (brahm.), 568 (aggihutta — mukhā yaññā: the
sacrifice. — 2. almsgiving, charity, a gift to the Sangha or a sacrifices to Agni are the best; brahm.); Th 1, 341; J i.83, 343;
bhikkhu. The brahmanic ritual of Vedic times has been given iii.517 (°ṁ yajati; brahm.); iv.66; v.491, 492; vi.200 (yañña
a changed and deeper meaning. Buddhism has discarded the — kāraka — brāhmaṇa), 211 sq.; DA i.267; DhA ii.6.
outward and cruel form and has widened its sphere by chang- -âgāra a hall for sacrifices Pug 56 (=yañña — sālā PugA
ing its participant, its object as well as the means and ways of 233). -āvāṭa the sacrificial pit D i.142, 148; J i.335; iii.45,
"offering," so that the yañña now consists entirely in a worthy 517; vi.215 (where reading yaññavāṭa, cp. yaññavāṭaka at Cp.
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application of a worthy gift to a worthy applicant. Thus the i.7 ). It has been suggested by Kern, Toev, s. v., and it seems
direct and as it were self — understood definition of yañña is more to the sense, to read yañña — vāṭa for yanñ' āvāṭa, i. e.
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at Nd 523 given with "yañño vuccati deyyadhammo," and enclosed place for sacrifice. Thus at all passages for °āvāṭa.
d
as this the 14 constituents of the latter are enum ; consist- -kāla a suitable (or the proper) time for sacrifice D i.137; Sn
ing of the 4 paccayas, and of anna, pāna, vattha, yāna, mālā, 458, 482; DA i.297. -upanīta one who has been brought
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gandhā, vilepana, seyya, avasatha, padīpeyya. Cp. Nd 373. to the sacrifice S i.168 (trsl. K.S. 211 not quite to the point:
— The term parikkhāra, which refers to the requisites of the "the oblation is brought." Reading is uncertain; v. l. °opanīta
bhikkhu as well (see DA i.204 — 207), is also used in the which may be read as opavīta "wearing the sacrificial cord":
meaning of "accessory instrument" concerning the brahmanic see foll.). -opavīta (?) [see upavīta] in phrase yaññ' opavīta
sacrifice: see D i.129 sq., 137 sq. They are there given as 16 — kaṇṭhā "having the (sacrificial, i. e.) alms — cord wound
parikkhāras, as follows: (4) cattāro anumati — pakkhā viz. the round their necks" SnA 92 (v. l. BB yaññ — opacita —
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4 groups khattiyas, ministers, brahmans and householders, as kammā). Cp. yañña — suttaka. -patha [cp. patha ] (way of)
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colleagues by consent; (8) aṭṭhangāni of a king — sacrificer; sacrificing, sacrifice Sn 1045; Nd 524 (yañño y' eva vuccati
(4) cattār' angāni of a purohita. — The term mahāyañña refers yañña — patho); J vi.212, 215. -vaṇṇa praise of sacrifice J
to the brahmanic ritual (so at M ii.204; DhsA 145, cp. Exposi- vi.200. -vidhāna the arrangement or celebration of a sacrifice
tor 193); its equivalent in Buddhist literature is mahādāna, for J vi.202. -sampadā success of the sacrifice D i.128 sq. (in its
which yañña is also used at Pv ii.9 50 (cp. PvA 134). — The threefold mode), 134, 143, 144; Sn 505, 509. -sāmin lord or
Jātakas are full of passages referring to the ineffectiveness and giver of a sacrifice D i.143. -suttaka "sacrificial string," i. e.
cruelty of the Brahmanic sacrifice, e. g. J iii.518 sq.; vi.211 alms — cord (the sign of a mendicant) DhA ii.59. Cp. above:
sq., & cp. Fick, Sociale Gliederung, p. 146 sq. One special °opavīta.
kind of sacrifice is the sabba-catukkayañña or the sacrifice of
Yaññatā (f.) [abstr. fr. yañña] "sacrificiality," the function or
tetrads, where four of each kind of gifts, as elephants, horses,
ceremony of a sacrifice J vi.202 (=yañña — vidhāna C.).
bulls, and even men were offered: J i.335; iii.44, 45; PvA 280.
Yaṭṭhi (f.) [cp. Vedic yaṣṭi. Another Pali form is laṭṭhi] 1. a staff,
The number 4 here has the meaning of evenness, complete-
stick, pole M iii.133 (tomara° goad); S i.115 (pācana° driv-
ness, or harmony, as we find it freq., in the notion of the square
ing stick, goad); Miln 2; DhA iii.140 (kattara° a mendicant's
with ref. to Vimānas & lotus ponds (in J., Vv & Pv etc.); often
staff); PvA 241; VbhA 241 (yantacakka°); Mhvs 11, 10 (veḷu°
also implying awfulness & magic, as attached e. g. to cross
a bamboo pole). — 2. a stem, stalk (of a plant), cane in ucchu°
— roads. Cp. the Ep. of niraya (Purgatory) "catu — dvāra"
sugarstick, sugar — cane DhA iii.315 (=ucchu — khaṇḍika at
(esp. at Pv i.10). See cpds. of catur. — It may also refer to 26
the 4 quarters of the sky, as belonging to the 4 Guardians of Vv 33 ); iv.199. — 3. a measure of length (=7 ratanas) VbhA
the World (lokapālā) who were specially worth offering to, as 343.
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