váṣaṭ ind. (accord. to some fr. √ 1. vah; cf. 2. vaṭ and vauṣaṭ) an exclamation uttered by the Hotṛ priest at the end of the sacrificial verse (on hearing which the Adhvaryu priest casts the oblation offered to the deity into the fire; it is joined with a dat., e.g. pūṣṇe vaṣaṭ; with √ kṛ, ‘to utter the exclamation ’), [RV.]; [VS.]; [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Pur.]