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Vājapeyya

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

  1. Greeting people kindly with soft and pleasant speech (peyyavajjam, piyavācatā);
  2. A sacrifice in which Soma (Vāja) is drunk.

In the second seventeen animals are offered seventeen times.