yajñá m. worship, devotion, prayer, praise

• act of worship or devotion, offering, oblation, sacrifice (the former meanings prevailing in Veda, the latter in post-Vedic literature

• cf. mahā-y○) RV. &c. &c

• a worshipper, sacrificer RV. iii, 30, 15 ; 32, 12)

• fire L.

• = ātman L.

• Sacrifice personified MBh. Hariv.

• (with prājāpatya) N. of the reputed author of RV. x, i 30 Anukr.

• N. of a form of Vishṇu Pur.

• of Indra under Manu Svāyambhuva ib.

• of a son of Ruci and Ākūti ib.