vaṣaṭ ind. ( accord. to some fr. √ 1. vah; cf. 2. vaṭ and vauṣaṭ) an exclamation uttered by the Hotṛ priest at the end of the sacrificial verse (on hearing which the Adhvaryu priest casts the oblation offered to the deity into the fire; it is joined with a dat. , e.g. pūṣṇevaṣaṭ; with √ kṛ, ‘to utter the exclamation vaṣaṭ’), RV. ; VS. ; Br. ; ŚrS. ; Mn. ; MBh. ; Pur.
The corpus record — Sanskrit
vaśāt
vaṣaṭ ind. ( accord. to some fr. √ 1. vah; cf. 2. vaṭ and vauṣaṭ) an exclamation uttered by the Hotṛ priest at the end of the sacrificial verse (on hearing which the Adhvaryu priest casts the oblation offered to the deity into the fire; it is joined with a dat. , e.g. pūṣṇevaṣaṭ; with √ kṛ, ‘to utte
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Where it lives
- Katha Upanisad 1 · 4.64/10k
- Taittiriya Upanisad 1 · 1.89/10k
- Bhagavad Gita 1 · 1.16/10k
- Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 2 · 0.26/10k
- Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
In the wild
- vaśāt Bhagavad Gita 9.8
- vasati Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_5,10.1
- vasati Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_6,1.8
- vasati Chandogya Upanisad chup_3,16.2
- vasati Katha Upanisad kau_1.8
- vasatau Taittiriya Upanisad TaittU_3,10.1
Where it came from
- Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. vasat (vol. 3, scan p. 750; entry #11817).
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