neuter
a ceremony or place of recitation
Vācanaka (neuter) [from vāceti] talk, recitation, disputation; invitation (?), in brāhmaṇa° Ja I 318 (karoti); III 171; IV 391 (karoti); regarded as a kind of festival. At Ja III 238 vācanaka is used by itself (two brahmins receiving it). It refers to the treating of brāhmaṇas (br. teachers) on special occasions (on behalf of their pupils: a sort of farewell-dinner?). — It is not quite certain how we have to interpret vācanaka. Under brāhmaṇa (compounds) we have translated it as "elocution show" (cf. our "speech day"). The English translation gives "brahmin feast"; Prof. Dutoit "Brahmanen-backwerk" (i.e. special cakes for br.). vācana may be a distortion of vājana, although the latter is never found as v.l. It is at all events a singular expression. BR give vācanaka as ἅπαξ λεγομέυου in meaning of "sweetmeat," with the only reference Hārāvalī 152 (Calc. ed.), where it is explained as "praheḷaka" (see Pāli paheṇaka). On the subject see also Fick, Soziale Gliederung pages 137, 205.
【中】 朗誦的典禮或地方。
(nt, nt) ceremony or place of recitation Construction: √vac > vāc + *ana + ka