hotra होत्र – sacrificial act; invocation

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hotrá ·n. sacrifice, oblation; the office of the Hotṛ.

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Hotra, am, n. (fr. rt. hu), anything intended or fit for offering with fire (generally clarified butter); the clarified butter so offered (= havis); a burnt- offering, oblation with fire, a sacrifice, (in Ṛg-veda II. 36, 1. hotra = hotur yāga.)

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hotrá (von 1. hu) UṆĀDIS. 4,167 (parox.). n. 1〉 Opfer (die Handlung und die Gabe) TRIK. 2,7,8. H. 821. ṚV. 2,1,2. mandàsva ho̱trādandhàsaḥ (= hotṛyāga SĀY.) ṚV. 2,37,1. pibà ho̱trāt ṚV. 2,36,1. sa̱pta ho̱trāṇi̱ manàsā vṛṇā̱nāḥ ṚV. 3,4,5. ā nò si̱trāvarùṇā ho̱trāyà vavṛtyāḥ ṚV. 6,11,1. PAÑCAV. BR. 21,10,11. ŚĀṄKH. ŚR. 7,8,2. MBH. 12,10412. — 2〉 das Opfern, das Geschäft des Hotar: pañca̱ janā̱ mamà ho̱traṃ juṣàntām so v. a. meine Besorgung des Amtes ṚV. 10,53,5. yathāyàjo ho̱tramàgne pṛthi̱vyāḥ ṚV. 3,17,2. ho̱trāda̱haṃ bibhyàdāyam ṚV. 10,51,4. ni ṣī̀da ho̱tram ṚV. 98,4. ṚV. 10,5. AV. 9,2,6. vṛṇate 'gniṃ hotrāya NIR. 7,31. ŚAT. BR. 1,2,3,1. ŚAT. BR. 1,4,2,17. ŚAT. BR. 1,9,1,10. ṛgvedenaiva hotramakurvata ŚAT. BR. 11,5,8,4. KĀṬH. 25,7. agne̱ verho̱traṃ verdū̱tyàm ? VS. 2,9; vgl. ṚV. 1,76,4. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 54,b,9. — Vgl. agni˚, caturhotra (cā˚), deva˚, puru˚, vīti˚, vīra˚, veṇu˚, śāli˚, saṃ˚, su˚.

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hotrá n. — 1〉 Opfer (die Handlung und die Gabe). — 2〉 das Opfern, das Geschäft des Hotar. — hótrā s. bes.

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hotraṃ [hu-ṣṭran] 1 Anything fit to be offered as an oblation (as ghee). 2 A burnt offering. 3 A sacrifice.

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hotrá n. Opfer, das Amt des Hotar.

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hotra hotra n. le vase du prêtre hotṛ, Vd. L'offrande de ghṛta. hotraka n. la libation. hotrīya m. (sfx. īya) le prêtre hotṛ. — N. le lieu où se fait l'offrande, l'autel.