Yāga
Yāga,[fr.yaj,*Sk.yāga,cp.yañña & yaja] 1.a (brahmanic) sacrifice,known otherwise as mahāyāga (or pl.°yāgā),and consisting of the 4:assamedha,purisamedha,sammāpāsa,vāja-peyya.Thus mentioned at S.I,76 & Sn.303.-- 2.In Buddhistic sense:gift,alms‹-› giving,charity; expense or expenditure of giving (almost syn.with cāga) A.I,91 (here given in line with dāna & cāga,with distinction of āmisa° & dhamma°,i.e.the material sacrifice,as under 1,and the spiritual sacrifice or help); with the same contrast of ā° & dh.° at D.III,155; It.98,102; J.V,57,65; DhA.I,27.-- J.IV,66 (sahassena yāgaṁ yajanto); Miln.21 (dhamma°); VvA.155; PvA.135 (mahā°-saññita yañña),136 (mahā°).-- suyiṭṭha yāga sampadā “well-given is the perfection of charity” ThA.40 (Ap.v.7)=230 (id.).
--piṇḍa the sacrificial oblation consisting in a ball of meat or flour (cp.piṇḍa-pitṛ-yajña) J.VI,522 (with v.l.yāgu°).(Page 551)