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प्रकरितृ (prakaritR)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
प्र°करितृ॑
m.
 one who sprinkles (or seasons?),
VS.
Monier Williams 1872
English
प्रकरितृ प्र-करितृ। See प्र-कॄ, p. 603.
प्र-करितृ, ता, त्री, तृ, Ved. one who sprinkles
one who spices or seasons (?).
Vedic Reference
English
Pra-karitṛ is the name of one of the victims at the Puruṣa-
medha (‘human sacrifice’) in the Yajurveda.^1 The exact sense
is uncertain
the commentator Sāyaṇa on the Taittirīya Brāh-
maṇa explains it to mean the ‘divider of dear ones by producing
enmity, ’ but the sense of ‘sprinkler’ — that is, ‘seasoner’ — is
more likely.
1) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxx. 12
Tait-
tirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4, 8, 1. Cf.
Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 44,
315, n. 1
Weber, Indische Streifen, 1,
79, n. 6.