aja
Aja,[Vedic aja fr. aj (Lat. ago to drive),cp. ajina] a hegoat,a ram D.I,6,127; A.II,207; J.I,241; III,278 sq.; V,241; Pug.56; PvA.80.
--eḷaka [Sk. ajaiḍaka] goats & sheep D.I,5,141; A.II,42 sq.,209; J.I,166; VI,110; Pug.58. As pl. °ā S.I,76; It.36; J.IV,363. --pada goat-footed M.I,134. --pāla goatherd,in °nigrodharukkha (Npl.) “goatherds’Nigrodha-tree” Vin.I,2 sq. Dpvs.I,29 (cp. M Vastu III,302). --pālikā a woman goatherd Vin.III,38. --lakkhaṇa “goat-sign”,i. e. prophesying from signs on a goat etc. D.I,9 (expld. DA.I,94 as “evarūpānaṁ ajānaṁ mansaṁ khāditabbaṁ evarūpānaṁ na khāditabban ti”). --laṇḍikā (pl.) goats’dung,in phrase nāḷimattā a. a cup full of goats’dung (which is put down a bad minister’s throat as punishment) J.I,419; DhA.II,70; PvA.282. --vata “goats’habit”,a practice of certain ascetics (to live after the fashion of goats) J.IV,318.
aja-pada refers to a stick cloven like a goat’s hoof; so also at Vism.161. (Page 9)