[yaj-bhāve na] 1 A sacrifice, sacrificial rite; any offering or ob- lation; yajñena yajñamayajaṃta devāḥ; tasmādya- jñātsarvahutaḥ &c.

2 An act of wor- ship, any pious or devotional act. (Every householder, but parti- cularly a Brāhmaṇa, has to per- form five such devotional acts every day; their names are: bhūta- yajña, manuṣyayajña, pitṛyajña, devayajña, and brahma- yajña, which are collectively call- ed the...