संस्‍कृत हिन्‍दी अंग्रेजी शब्‍दकोश : होतृ

संस्कृत — हिन्दी

होतृ — ऋग्वेदवेत्ता; "तेन हुधात्वर्थव्यनच्छेदकप्रक्षेपोनुकूलव्यापारवति ऋत्विजि होता इत्यादिव्यपदेशः" (noun)

Monier–Williams

होतृ — {hótṛ} &c. See p. 1306, col. 1

होतृ — {hótṛ} m. (fr. √1. {hu}) 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 Ṛig-veda, a Ṛig-veda priest (one of the 4 kinds of officiating priest, {ṛtvij}, p. 224 ; properly the Hotṛi priest has 3 assistants, sometimes called Purushas, viz. the Maitrā-varuṇa, Aochā-vāka, and Grāvastut ; to these are sometimes added three others, the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin, Agnīdhra or Agnīdh, and Potṛi, though these last are properly assigned to the Brahman priest##sometimes the Neshṭṛi is substituted for the Grāva-stut) &c. &c##N. of Śiva##mf({trī})n. one who sacrifices (gen. or comp.), sacrificer &c

इन्हें भी देखें : अग्निहोतृ; अहोतृ; आरुणिहोतृ; कण्वहोतृ; क्षीरहोतृ; चतुर्होतृ; चातुर्होतृक; दशहोतृ; चातुर्होत्रम्; होतृसंस्थाजपः;