India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.12

c11.s2.12

SOMA—Pressing of Soma was known as *sutyā* (III.3.99), and one who pressed it as *Somasut* (III.2.90). After the ceremony the *yajamāna* who pressed the Soma was called *sutvā* (III.2.103), corresponding to the other title *yajvā*, 'one performing a sacrifice'.