ājya आज्य – clarified butter; ghee
substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified
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AYI dictionary substantive neuter
clarified butter; ghee
Cappeller 1891 substantive neuter
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ā́jya ·n. melted or clarified butter; also oil and milk (used for religious purposes).
Monier-Williams 1872 substantive neuter
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ājya ājya, am, n. (fr. rt. añj with ā), melted or clarified butter used for oblations, or for pouring into the holy fire at the sacrifice, or for anointing anything sacrificed or offered; (in a wider sense) oil and milk used instead of clarified butter at a sacrifice; N. of a sort of chant or religious service; turpentine.
Petersburger 1855 substantive neuter · Word type unspecified
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1. ā́jya (von añj mit ā) n. P. 3,1,109, Vārtt. 2. VOP. 26,20. 1〉 Opferschmalz; die am Feuer zerlassene und gereinigte Butter, welche in die Flamme gegossen oder zum Schmälzen und Salben verwendet wird, AK. 2,9,51. AK. 2,9,52. AK. 2,7,23. H. 407. H. 832. Das Wort findet sich im ṚV. nur in Maṇḍala 10. ājyaghṛtayorbhedaḥ pūrvācāryairudāhṛtaḥ . sarpirvilīnamājyaṃ syādghanībhūtaṃ ghṛtaṃ viduḥ . SĀY._zu_AIT. BR. 1,3. ājyaìrghṛ̱tairju̱hotì ṚV. 10,79,5. yaṃ sa̱māñja̱nnājyènā vṛṇā̱nāḥ ṚV. 88,4. ṚV. 53,2. ṚV. 90,6. ṚV. 122,7. ṚV. 130,3. pū̱taṃ pa̱vitrèṇe̱vājyàm VS. 20,20. VS. 2,8. VS. 2,9. VS. 2,13. VS. 5,35. sru̱cājyā̀ni̱ juhvàtaḥ AV. 6,114,3. ghṛ̱tena̱ kāmàṃ śikṣāmi ha̱viṣājyèna AV. 9,2,1. pu̱ro̱ḍāśā̱vājyènā̱bhighā̀ritau AV. 10,29,5. AV. 12,4,34. AV. 13,1,53. AV. 19,27,5. TS. 2,2,9,4. ājyaṃ vai devānāṃ surabhi ghṛtaṃ manuṣyāṇāmāyutaṃ pitṝṇāṃ navanītaṃ garbhāṇām AIT. BR. 1,3. ŚAT. BR. 1,2,1,22. ŚAT. BR. 2,4,3,10. ŚAT. BR. 3,5,2,1. ājyamutpunāti KĀTY. ŚR. 2,7,7. navanītaṃ svayaṃjātamājyamāsicya KĀTY. ŚR. 15,3,28. śuddhamājyam KAUŚ. 90. KAUŚ. 67. BṚH. ĀR. UP. 6,3,1. śvetā gā ājyāya duhanti (so ist zu trennen) P. 8,1,63, Sch. BHAG. 9,16. R. 3,9,33. R. 6,92,13. SUŚR. 1,16,11. SUŚR. 2,159,8. RAGH. 7,17. ājyāhutí ŚAT. BR. 1,7,2,10. ŚAT. BR. 9,3,2,4. AIT. BR. 2,14. ĀŚV. GṚHY. 1,4. ĀŚV. GṚHY. 1,23. PĀR. GṚHY. 2,1. ājyagraha KĀTY. ŚR. 19,4,25. ājyadhānī KAUŚ. 6. ājyahavís ŚAT. BR. 1,5,3,4. ŚAT. BR. 1,5,3,5. ŚAT. BR. 1,9,2,7. ŚAT. BR. 11,4,1,15. Vgl. pṛṣadājya. — 2〉 in weiterem Sinne auch das statt des eigentlichen Opferschmalzes verwendete Oel, Milch u. s. w.: ghṛtaṃ vā yadi vā tailaṃ payo vā dadhi yāvakam . ājyasthāne niyuktānāmājyaśabdo vidhīyate GṚHYASAṂGR. 2,2. — 3〉 Name einer bestimmten Litanei (śastra oder stotra): hotājyaṃ śaṃsati AIT. BR. 2,37. AIT. BR. 2,31. AIT. BR. 2,36. AIT. BR. 2,38. ājyastotrapṛṣṭhastotrādayaḥ SĀY. in der Einl. zu AIT. BR. ŚAT. BR. 10,1,2,7. ŚAT. BR. 13,5,1,8. — 4〉 Terpentin AJAYAPĀLA_im_ŚKDR.
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2. ā́jya patron. von aja gaṇa gargādi zu P. 4,1,105. Verz. d. B. H. No. 104.
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1. ājya [vgl. [1:611]] letzte Zeile lies: {1,18} st. {1,8}. (revision)
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1. ājya 3〉 genauer a〉 ein gewisses Śastra bei der Frühspende und zwar je eines für den Hotar und seine drei Gehilfen ŚĀṄKH. BR. 14,1. — b〉 das in demselben enthaltene Sūkta ŚĀṄKH. BR. 20,2. — c〉 ein mit jenem Śastra verbundenes Stotra PAÑCAV. BR. 19,7,5. PAÑCAV. BR. 20,8,1. PAÑCAV. BR. 20,14,7. pañcadaśānyājyāni d. h. die Ājya-Stotra enthalten den Pañcadaśa-Stoma SĀY._zu_AIT. BR. 2,36.
Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine · substantive neuter
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2. *ājya m. Patron. von aja.
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1. ā́jya und ā́jia n. — 1〉 Opferschmalz; am Feuer zerlassene und gereinigte Butter, welche in die Flamme gegossen oder zum Schmälzen und Salben verwendet wird. — 2〉 Oel, Milch und andere Stoffe, wenn sie statt des eigentlichen Opferschmalzes verwendet werden. — 3〉 ein best. Śastra bei der Frühspende und zwar je eines für den Hotar und seine drei Gehülfen. — 4〉 das in diesem Śastra enthaltene Sūkta. — 5〉 ein mit diesem Śastra verbundenes Stotra.
Apte 1890 substantive neuter
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ājyaṃ [ājyate, ā-aṃj-kyap] 1 Clarified butter, ghee; ājyadhūmodgamena ([Page 0231-b]) Ś. 1. 15; (it is often distinguished from ghṛta; sapiṃviṃlīnamājyaṃ syād ghanībhūtaṃ ghṛtaṃ bhavet). 2 (In a wider sense) Oil, milk &c. used instead of clarified butter; ghṛtaṃ vā yadi vā tailaṃ payo vā dadhi yāvakaṃ . ājyasyāne niyuktānāmājyaśabdo vidhīyate ... 3 N. of a sort of chant or religious service (sāmastomabhedaḥ); ājimīyustasmādājyānāmājyatvaṃ Nir. 4 Turpentine. Comp. — dohaṃ a hymn to be recited by a Sāmavedin. — pa a. drinking ghee. ( — pāḥ pl.) a class of Manes who are the sons of Pulastya and the ancestors of the Vaiśya order; pulastyasyājyapāḥ putrāḥ Mb.; Ms. 3. 197-8. — pātraṃ, -sthālī a vessel or dish to hold clarified butter. — bhaj m. 1 an epithet of Agni (the consumer of clarified butter). 2 a god, deity. — vāriḥ ‘sea of clarified butter’, one of the seven seas.
Cappeller 1887 substantive neuter
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ā́jya n. Opferschmalz.
Burnouf 1866 substantive neuter
Original text · French · substantive neuter
ājya ājya n. (añj) beurre clarifié ou fondu que l'on répandait sur le feu sacré pour en exciter l'ardeur; l'offrande, havis. L'onction. Cf. ajya et āja.
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HP 3 occurrences
SiSa 2 occurrences
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