[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v2.c4.s2.296 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s2.296 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s2.296 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c4.s2.296](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.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 - [Previous: v2.c4.s2.295](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.295) - [Next: v2.c4.s2.297](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.297) - [Up: v2.c4.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.296](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.296) · Pramāṇa