concept

potṛ

potar priest (potṛ)

The officiant who purifies, and the cup drawn from his station. The office is named at RV 2.1.2 and RV 1.94.6 (Griffith's "Cleanser", "Purifier"), the officiant sits down as potar at RV 4.9.3, and the Potar's cup is drunk from at RV 1.15.2, RV 2.36.2, RV 2.37.2 and RV 2.37.4 and in the Atharvavedic parallels AVS 20.2.1, 20.2.4, 20.67.4 and 20.67.7. In the Rigvedic instances the potar is Agni; at VS 19.42 he is Soma the purifier, "yaḥ potā sa punātu mā".

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Corpus reach

Passages reached

Passages that reach this record through the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates this surface counts.

Passages reached. Passages that reach this record through the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates this surface counts.
Rigveda		13
Samaveda		1
Yajurveda		1
Atharvaveda		4

A null is not a zero: it means this object was not reached in that corpus by the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates counted here. The mention layer's measured recall is 0.8857, so even a reached corpus is a lower bound.

Other names

potrampotraṃpotrādpotrātpotā

How this record was built3

`passage_count` counts DISTINCT passages reaching the object through the lexical, conceptual and ritual predicates this surface counts, and is the same figure the detail view reports. It is NULL, never 0, where no passage reaches it: the mention layer's measured recall is 0.8857, so a null is a lower bound and not an assertion that the corpus is silent.
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SAMAVEDA SCOPE: the Kauthuma Samaveda is present as the arcika (verse) collection only -- 1,844 mantras -- and the gana song corpus is not included. It carries no Anukramani seer or metre apparatus and no English translation, and its share of the deity mention layer comes from surface and sandhi matching rather than from the manual morphological annotation the Rigveda has. Compare it as a share of its 1,844 mantras, never as a raw total against the Rigveda's 10,552.
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`co_mentioned` is CO-OCCURRENCE WITHIN A MANTRA and nothing more. It carries no causal, prescriptive or pharmacological claim: a plant named beside an affliction is named beside it, and apamarga is named against sorcery rather than against a cough. `neighbours` holds the curated edges, which are a different strength of claim; the two are separate fields so they cannot be read as one.
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Direct relationships

Named in the same verses