Vāseti2 [Denom. fr. vāsa perfume] to perfume, to clean or preserve by means of perfumes, to disinfect (?) Vin i.211 (here in the sense of "preserve, cure," probably as vāseti of vasati2); ii.120; J iv.52 (aṭṭhīni, for the sake of preservation); v.33 (saso avāsesi sake sarīre, expld as "sake sarīre attano sarīraŋ dātuŋ avāsesi vāsāpesī ti attho, sarīrañ c' assa bhakkh' atthāya adāsi." In this passage vāseti is by Kern, Toev. s. v. taken as Caus. of vas to eat, thus "he made eat, feasted, entertained by or on his own body"), 321 (kusumehi vāsetvā: perfume). See also vasati2 (Caus.). -- pp. vāsita. <-> Caus. II. vāsāpeti J v.33.