hotf | होत्फ़् | hotf
ho/tf | हो/त्फ़् | &c. See p. 1306, col. 1.
ho/tf | हो/त्फ़् | m. (fr. √ 1. hu | हु |) 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 ftvij | फ़्त्विज् |, p. 224; properly the Hotṛ priest has 3 assistants, sometimes called Puruṣas, 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.
N. of Śiva, MBh.
ho/tf | हो/त्फ़् | mf(trī | त्री |)n. one who sacrifices (gen. or comp.), sacrificer, Mn.; MBh. &c.
ho/tf | हो/त्फ़् | m. (fr. √ 1. hu | हु |) 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 ftvij | फ़्त्विज् |, p. 224; properly the Hotṛ priest has 3 assistants, sometimes called Puruṣas, 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.
N. of Śiva, MBh.
ho/tf | हो/त्फ़् | mf(trī | त्री |)n. one who sacrifices (gen. or comp.), sacrificer, Mn.; MBh. &c.