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Purohita
Priests of the Vedic religion are officiants of the yajna service. Yajna is an important part of Hinduism especially the Vedas. persons trained for the ritual and proficient in its practice, they were called ṛtvij ("regularly-sacrificing"). As members of a social class, they were generically known as vipra "sage" or kavi "seer". Specialization of roles attended the elaboration and development of the ritual corpus over time. Eventually a full complement of
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Purohita theognis
speciesPurohita theognis
Purohita circumcincta
speciesPurohita circumcincta
Purohita sinica
speciesPurohita sinica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1155972.