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yagna

yagna is the alternative form of yajna.

Meaning of yajna

Noun

yajna (countable and uncountable, plural yajnas)

  1. (Hinduism) A ritual of sacrifice to the Devas.
    • The visit to Pushkar is, however, a little more than the obligatory obeisance done at the site where Brahma carelessly dropped a lotus blossom as he was wondering where to perform a yagnya.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 501

Forms of yagna

pluralyagnas

Questions about yagna

What is yagna the alternative form of?
Yagna is the alternative form of yajna.

Words near yagna in the dictionary

  1. Yagi antennas
  2. Yagi-Uda antenna
  3. Yagi-Uda antennas
  4. yagiite
  5. yagis
  6. yagna
  7. yagnas
  8. yagni
  9. Yagnob
  10. Yagnobi
  11. Yagnobis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yagna (page history and authors); yajna (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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