Lāja & Lājā

feminine

1. fried grain, parched corn: occurring only in combination madhu-lāja fried grain with honey, sweet corn Ja.iii.538; Ja.iv.214, Ja.iv.281.
2. the flower of Dalbergia arborea, used for scattering in bunches (with other flowers making 5 kinds or colours) as a sign of welcome & greeting, usually in phrase; lāja-pañcamāni pupphāni (“a cluster of flowers with lāja as the fifth”) Dhp-a.i.112; Vv-a.31; Ja.i.55 (˚pañcamakāni p.); cp. Ja.ii.240 (vippakiṇṇa-lāja-kusuma-maṇḍita-talā); Ja.vi.42 (vippakiṇṇa-lāja-kusuma-vāsa-dhūp’ andhakāra); Dhp-a.i.140 (vippakiṇṇa-valikaṃ pañcavaṇṇa-kusuma-lāja-puṇṇaghaṭa-paṭimaṇḍita).

cp. Vedic lāja: Zimmer, Altind. Leben 269