India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.23

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s2.23

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c11.s2.23

In the ritual as given in the *Brāhmaṇas*, the number of priests is sixteen, classed in four groups (*Vedic Index*, I.113).¹ Of those connected with the *Ṛigveda*, Pāṇini mentions Hotā, Praśāstā (VI.4.11), and Grāvastut (III.2.177), the Praśāstā known as Maitrāvaruṇa also. The Grāvastut praised the *grāvā* or stones for pressing Soma. The Hotā recited the *yājyā* and *anuvākyā* verses.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit