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पोतृ (potR)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
पोतृ
m.
 (-ता)
1. One of the Sixteen officiating priests at a sacrifice.
2. A name of VISHṆU.
E.
 पू to make pure,
aff.
 तृच् ।
Capeller Eng
English
पो॑तृ
m.
 purifier (a kind of priest).
पोतृ॑
m.
 purifier (a kind of priest).
Yates
English
पोतृ (ता) 1.
m.
 An officiating priest
at a sacrifice
Vishnu.
Wilson
English
पोतृ
m.
 (-ता)
1 One of the officiating priests at a sacrifice.
2 A name of VIṢṆU.
E.
 पू to make pure,
aff.
 तृच्.
Apte
English
पोतृ [pōtṛ],
m.
One of the sixteen officiating priests at a sacrifice (assistant of the priest called ब्रह्मन्).
An epithet of Viṣṇu.
Apte 1890
English
पोतृ m. 1 One of the sixteen officiating priests at a sacrifice (assistant of the priest called ब्रह्मन्).
2 An epithet of Viṣṇu.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पो॑तृ or पोतृ॑,
m.
 ‘Purifier’,
N.
 of one of the 16 officiating priests at a sacrifice (the assistant of the Brāhman
=
 यज्ञस्य शोधयिट्रि,
Sāy.
 ),
RV.
Br.
ŚrS.
Hariv.
N.
 of Viṣṇu,
L.
Monier Williams 1872
English
पोतृ, ता, m. ‘the purifier, ’ an epithet of one of
the sixteen officiating priests (ऋत्व्-इज्) at a sacrifice,
the assistant of the Brahman, (Sāy. = पोतृ-नाम-
कर्त्विज् or यज्ञस्य शोधयितृ)
an epithet of
Viṣṇu.
Macdonell
English
पोतृ pó-tṛ (or -tṛ́),
m.
 Purifier (designation 🞄of one of the sixteen officiation priests who 🞄is associated with the Brahman).
Benfey
English
पोतृ पोतृ, i. e. पू + तृ,
m.
 One of
the officiating priests at a sacrifice.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
पोतृ
पुं*
 - पू+तृन्
यज्ञ में कार्य कराने वाले सोलह ऋत्विजों में से एक
L R Vaidya
English
potf {% m. %} One of the sixteen officiating priests at a sacrifice.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
पोतृ m. °Elefantentreiber, S I, 70, 13 (Ko.).
Mahabharata
English
Potṛ = Śiva: VII, 2878.
Vedic Reference
English
Potṛ is the name of one of the priests (Ṛtvij) of the sacri-
ficial ritual. Already known to the Rigveda, ^1 he is frequently
mentioned later in the Brāhmaṇas.^2 But as Oldenberg^3
observes, the Potṛ is not in the later literature a priest of any
importance, but is practically a mere name. Judging by the
derivation of the name from the root pū, ‘purify, ’ it would
seem that he was properly engaged in the purification of the
Soma pavamāna, ‘Soma purifying itself, ’ and was perhaps
employed to sing hymns to this Soma. Potra^4 denotes both
the office and the Soma vessel of the Potṛ.^5
1) i. 94, 6
ii. 5, 2
iv. 9, 3
vii. 16, 5
ix. 67, 22.
2) Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, vi. 10 et seq.
Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, iv. 3, 4, 22
v. 4, 5, 22
xii. 1, 1, 8, etc.
3) Religien des Veda, 383, 391, 395.
4) Rv. ii. 1, 2, and probably i. 76, 4,
though the St. Petersburg Dictionary,
s.v., gives this as an example of the
second use.
5) Rv. i. 15, 2
ii. 36, 2
37, 2. 4.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
पोतृ
पु०
 पुनाति पु--तृन् । ऋत्विग्मेदे अच्छावाकशब्दे८५ पृ० दृश्यम् । होत्रादिशब्देन द्वन्द्वे ऋत आत् ।पोताहोतारौ ।
Grassman
German
pótṛ, m., der Läuterer, Reiniger, einer der Priester [von pū].
-ā {94, 6}
{196, 2}
{305, 3}
{532, 5}.
potṛ́, m., dasselbe.
-ā́ yás 〰 sá punātu nas {779, 22}.
Burnouf
French
पोतृ पोतृ
m.
 (पू
sfx. तृ) purificateur, le
prêtre chargé de clarifier le soma, Vd.