Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s2.296

v2.c4.s2.296

Brahma-purohita is found in the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā¹ and the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa² where the St. Petersburg Dictionary gives the sense as ‘having the priesthood as its Purohita.’ This seems rather doubtful; more probably the sense should be ‘having a Brahman priest as Purohita,’ unless the word merely means ‘having the priesthood superior to it,’ as an epithet of Kṣatra, the ‘warrior caste,’ which seems to be Weber’s view.³