The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Vacchara [cp. Class. Sk. vatsara] year Sdhp 239. See the usual sa'vacchara.
Vacchala
Vacchala (adj.) [cp. Sk. vatsala] affectionate, lit. "loving her calf" ThA 148 (Ap v.64).
Vaja
Vaja [Vedic vraja: see vajati] a cattle -- fold, cow -- pen A iii.393; J ii.300; iii.270, 379; Vism 166, 279;
DhA i.126, 396. -- giribbaja a (cattle or sheep) run on the mountain J iii.479; as Npl. at Sn 408.
Vajati
Vajati [Vedic vraj, cp. Ved. vraja (=P. vaja) & v%jana enclosure=Av. v8r8#!"na -- , with which cp. Gr.
ei)/rgnumi to enclose, ei(rgmo/s, Lat. vergo to turn; Gaelic fraigh hurdle; Ags. wringan=E. wring=Ger.
ringen, E. wrinkle =Ger. renken, and many others, see Walde, Lat. Wtb. s. v. vergo. -- The Dhtp (59)
defines vaj (together with aj) by "gamana"] to go, proceed, get to (acc.), lit. to turn to (cp. v%j, v%*akti, pp.
v%kta, which latter coincides with v%tta of v%t in P. vatta: see vatta1 & cp. vajjeti to avoid, vajjita, vajjana
etc.) Sn 121, 381, 729 (j!timara*a -- sa's!ra'), 1143; J iii.401; iv.103 (niraya'); Pv iv.172 (Pot. vajeyya);
Nd2 423 (=gacchati kamati); Mhvs 11, 35 (imper. vaja as v. l.; T. reads bhaja). See cpds. anubbajati,
upabb˚, pabb˚, paribb˚.
Vajalla
Vajalla see rajo -- vajalla.
Vajira
Vajira1 [cp. Vedic vajira, Indra's thunderbolt; Idg. *9e_=Sk. vaj, cp. Lat. vegeo to thrive, vigeo>vigour;
Av. va#ra; Oicel. vakr=Ags. wacor=Ger. wacker; also E. wake etc. See also v!jeti] a thunderbolt; usually
with ref. to Sakka's (=Indra's) weapon D i.95=M i.231 (ayasa); Th 1, 419; J i.134 (vajira -- p(rit! viya
garuk! kucchi "as if filled with Sakka's thunderbolt." Dutoit takes it in meaning vajira2 and trsls "with
diamonds"); SnA 225 (˚!vudha the weapon of Sakka). -- p!*in having a thunderbolt in his hand (N. of a
yakkha) D i.95=M. i.231.
Vajira
Vajira2 (m. & nt.) [cp. Sk. vajra=vajira1] a diamond A i.124 (˚ûpamacitta)=Pug 30; Dh 161; J iv.234; Miln
118, 267, 278; Mhvs 30, 95; KhA 110 (˚sankh!ta -- k!ya); DhA i.387 (˚panti row of diamonds), 392 sq.
Vaju)a
Vaju)a [cp. Sk. vañjula. Given as vañjula at Abhp 553] N. of several plants, a tree (the ratan: Hal!yudha 2,
46) J v.420. See also vangati.
Vajja
Vajja1 (nt.) [grd. of vajjati, cp. Sk. varjya] that which should be avoided, a fault, sin D ii.38; S i.221; Vin
ii.87 (th(la˚ a grave sin); A i.47, 98; iv.140; Ps i.122; Dh 252; VbhA 342 (syn. with dosa and garahitabba);
KhA 23 (pa**atti˚ & pakati˚), 24 (id.), 190 (loka˚); DA i.181 (=akusala -- dhamma). Freq. in phrase:
a*umattesu vajjesu bhaya -- dass!vin "seeing a source of fear even in the slightest sins" D i.63; S v.187 and