Ritual role
A curated, evidence-aware list from the frozen product graph.
- priest (hotṛ)ritual roleThe officiant who invokes and offers, named by office rather than as an individual.321linked passages
- sacrificer (yajamāna)ritual roleThe man on whose behalf and at whose cost the rite is performed: not an officiant, and the party most of the corpus's requests are made for.94linked passages
- brahman priest (brahman)ritual roleThe brahman as a person: the priest who holds the formulation, and the class of men who do. NOT the formulation itself, which is VG:CONCEPT:BRAHMAN-FORMULATION.67linked passages
- adhvaryu (adhvaryu)ritual roleThe officiant who does the physical work of the rite -- pressing, pouring, handling the vessels -- addressed in the plural as the men whose hands carry the offering.38linked passages
- household priest (purohita)ritual roleThe priest "placed in front" of a household or a king, an office the corpus attributes to men and to Agni in the same words.20linked passages
- potar priest (potṛ)ritual roleThe 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".19linked passages
- vedic student (brahmacārin)ritual roleThe student under the discipline of study and chastity, the subject of AVS 11.5 and of RV 10.109.5.18linked passages
- nestar priest (neṣṭṛ)ritual roleThe officiant who leads or conducts, Griffith's "Leader", and the cup drawn from his station. The office at RV 2.1.2 and RV 10.91.10 ("tava neṣṭraṃ"), the cup at RV 1.15.9, RV 2.37.3 and RV 2.37.4, and in the Vajasaneyi Samhita at VS 26.22, "neṣṭrād ṛtubhir iṣyata".5linked passages
- directing priest (praśāstṛ)ritual roleThe officiant who directs the rite, Griffith's "Director". Named as an agent at RV 1.94.6 ("praśāstā potā januṣā purohitaḥ") and RV 2.5.4 ("as Director was he born"), and as an office at RV 2.1.2 and RV 10.91.10 ("tava praśāstraṃ"). Agni holds it in all four.4linked passages
- fire kindler (agnīdh)ritual roleThe officiant who kindles the fire. Two attestations, in two Vedas, and both were read: RV 2.1.2 and RV 10.91.10, where Agni is told "tvam agnid ṛtāyataḥ" (Griffith's "Kindler for the pious man"), and VS 7.15, where the kindler is addressed in the vocative at the close of the offering formula, `yāḍ agnīt`. The stems `agnīdh` and `agnīdhraḥ` match nothing anywhere in the corpus.3linked passages
- chanter priest (udgātṛ)ritual roleThe priest who chants the Saman. Named exactly once in the four Samhitas, and in a simile: at RV 2.43.2 a bird is told "udgāteva śakune sāma gāyasi", "thou like the chanter-priest chantest the Sama". The Rigveda's manual annotation confirms the form as udgātár-, nominative singular masculine. The office does not occur in the Samaveda, whose chant it exists to sing.1linked passages
- acchavaka (acchāvāka)ritual rolepassage count not established
- brahmanacchamsin (brāhmaṇācchaṃsin)ritual rolepassage count not established
- gravastut (grāvastut)ritual rolepassage count not established
- maitravaruna (maitrāvaruṇa)ritual rolepassage count not established
- prastotr (prastotṛ)ritual rolepassage count not established
- pratihartr (pratihartṛ)ritual rolepassage count not established
- pratiprasthatr (pratiprasthātṛ)ritual rolepassage count not established
- subrahmanya (subrahmaṇya)ritual rolepassage count not established
- unnetr (unnetṛ)ritual rolepassage count not established
How this list was scoped1
`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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