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ब्रह्मपुरोहित (brahmapurohita)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
ब्रह्मपुरोहित brahmapurohita
adj.
 having the sacerdotal class for a purohita
ब्रह्मपुरोहित brahmapurohita
m.
 high priests of brahmA
Monier Williams Cologne
English
ब्र॑ह्म—पुरोहित (ब्र॑ह्म-),
mfn.
 having the sacerdotal class for a Purohita,
ŚBr.
Kāṭh.
ब्र॑ह्म—पुरोहित
m.
pl.
 ‘the high priests of Brahmā’, (with Buddhists)
N.
 of a class of divinities,
Lalit.
 (cf.
Dharmas.
 128).
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
brahmapurohita, m. pl. (= Pali id.), usually with deva, q.v., one (usually the 3d, or 2d) of the classes of rūpāvacara gods of the first dhyāna-bhūmi: LV 〔150.5〕
〔283.13〕 (brahmā brahmapurohitāś ca)
Mv 〔ii.314.7〕
〔348.18〕
〔360.12〕
Mvy 〔3087〕
Dharmas 〔128〕
Divy 〔68.14〕
〔367.11〕
〔568.26〕
Gv 〔249.15〕
Av 〔i.5.2〕 etc.
Mahabharata
English
Brahmapurohita = Mahāpurusha (Mahāpurushastava).
Vedic Reference
English
Brahma-purohita is found in the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā^1 and the
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa^2 where the St. Petersburg Dictionary
gives the sense as ‘having the priesthood as its Purohita.’
This seems rather doubtful
more probably the sense should be
‘having a Brahman priest as Purohita, ’ unless the word merely
means ‘having the priesthood superior to it, ’ as an epithet of
Kṣatra, the ‘warrior caste, ’ which seems to be Weber's view.^3
1) xix. 10
xxvii. 4.
2) xii. 8, 3, 29.
3) Indische Studien, 10, 30.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
ब्र(व्र)ह्मपुरोहित
पु०
 ब्रह्म वृहस्पतिः पुरोहितो यस्यदेवे । त्रयस्त्रिंशद्धि देवाः ब्रह्म पुरोहिता इति ब्रह्म वैवृहस्पतिर्ब्रह्मपुरोहिताः” शत० ब्रा० १२ । ८ । ३ । २९ ।