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भूतवीर (bhUtavIra)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
भूत—वीर
m.
pl.
N.
of a race,
AitBr.
Vedic Reference
English
Bhūta-vīra is the name of a family of priests who, according
to the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, ^1 were employed by Janamejaya to
the exclusion of the Kaśyapas. A family of the latter, the
Asitamṛgas, however, won back the favour of Janamejaya, and
ousted the Bhūtavīras.
1) vii. 27. Cf. Roth, Zur Litteratur
und Geschichte des Weda, 118
Eggeling,
Sacred Books of the East, 43, 344, n. 3
Muir, Sanskrit Texts, 12, 437 et seq.