1. يَج
1. yaj cl. 1. P. Ā. ( Dhātup. xxiii, 33 ) yajati, te (1. sg. yajase, RV. viii, 25, 1 ; Ved. Impv. yakṣi or ṣva; pf. iyāja, MBh. ; īje, RV. ; yeje [?] AV. cf. Kāś. on Pāṇ. vi, 4, 120 ; Ved. aor. ayākṣīt or ayāṭ; ayaṣṭa; Subj. yakṣat, yakṣati, te; 3. sg. ayakṣata, ĀśvGṛ. ; Prec. ijyāt, Pāṇ. iii, 4, 104 ; yakṣīya, MaitrS. ; fut. yaṣṭā, Br. ; yakṣyati, yate, RV. &c. &c.; inf. yaṣṭum, ījitum, MBh. ; Ved. ṭave; yajadhyai or yajadhyai; p.p. iṣṭa ind.p. iṣṭvā, AV. ; iṣṭvīnam, Pāṇ. vii, 1, 48 ; ijya Gr. ; yājam, AV. ), to worship, adore, honour ( esp. with sacrifice or oblations); to consecrate, hallow, offer (with acc. , rarely dat. loc. or prati, of the deity or person to whom; dat. of the person for whom, or the thing for which; and instr. of the means by which the sacrifice is performed; in older language generally P. of Agni or any other mediator, and Ā. of one who makes an offering on his own account, cf. yajamāna; later properly P. when used with reference to the officiating priest, and Ā. when referring to the institutor of the sacrifice), RV. &c. &c.; to offer i.e. to present, grant, yield, bestow, MBh. ; BhP. ; ( Ā. ) to sacrifice with a view to ( acc. ), RV. ; to invite to sacrifice by the Yājyā verses, ŚBr. ; ŚāṅkhŚr. : Pass. ijyate ( p. Ved. ijyamāna or yajyamāna, Pat. on Pāṇ. vi, 1, 108 ; ep. also pr. p. ijyat), to be sacrificed or worshipped, MBh. ; Kāv. &c.: Caus. yājayati ( ep. also te; aor. ayīyajat), to assist any one ( acc. ) as a priest at a sacrifice ( instr. ), TS. ; Br. ; to cause any one ( acc. ) to sacrifice anything ( acc. ) or by means of any one ( instr. ), MBh. ; R. : Desid. yiyakṣati, te ( cf. iyakṣati), to desire to sacrifice or worship, MBh. ; R. : Intens. yāyajyate, yāyajīti, yāyaṣṭi, Pāṇ. vii, 4, 83 , Sch.