1. hotṛ
hotṛ &c. See p. 1306, col. 1 .
The corpus record — Sanskrit
hotrā
hotṛ &c. See p. 1306, col. 1 .
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- Svetasvatara Upanisad 1 · 5.82/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
2. hotṛ
hotṛ m. ( fr. √ 1. hu) an offerer of an oblation or burnt-offering (with fire), sacrificer, priest, ( esp. ) a priest who at a sacrifice invokes the gods or recites the Ṛg-veda , a Ṛg-veda pr˚ (one of the 4 kinds of officiating priest See ṛtvij, p. 224; properly the Hotṛ priest has 3 assistants, sometimes called Puruṣa s, viz. the Maitrā-varuṇa , Acchā-vāka , and Grāvastut ; to these are sometimes added three others, the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin , Agnīdhra or Agnīdh , and Potṛ , though these last are properly assigned to the Brāhman priest; sometimes the Neṣṭṛ is substituted for the Grāva-stut ), RV. &c. &c.
3. hotṛ
N. of Śiva , MBh.
4. هْترَ
hotra n. sacrificing, the function or office of the Hotṛ , RV. ; AV. ; ŚBr. ; Kāṭh.
5. hotrā
1. hotrā f. (for 2. See p. 1308, col. 3 ) the function or office of a priest ( esp. of the Hotraka s, also applied to the persons of the Hotraka s), Br. : ŚrS.
6. hotrā
2. hotrā f. (for 1. See p. 1306, col. 1 ) calling, call, invocation (also personified), RV. ; TBr.
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