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yagya

yagya 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 yagya

pluralyagyas

Questions about yagya

What is yagya the alternative form of?
Yagya is the alternative form of yajna.

Words near yagya in the dictionary

  1. Yagubyan
  2. Yaguchi
  3. Yaguchis
  4. yagura
  5. yaguranage
  6. yagya
  7. yagyas
  8. yagé
  9. yah
  10. yah boo
  11. yah boo sucks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yagya (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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