Somapravaka, Somapravāka, Soma-pravaka: 4 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySomapravāka (सोमप्रवाक).—a person commissioned to engage sacrificial priests (śrotriya) for a Soma sacrifice.
Derivable forms: somapravākaḥ (सोमप्रवाकः).
Somapravāka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms soma and pravāka (प्रवाक).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionarySomapravāka (सोमप्रवाक).—m.
(-kaḥ) A person commissioned to engage Srotriyas for a Soma-sacrifice.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySomapravāka (सोमप्रवाक):—[=soma-pravāka] [from soma] m. the proclaimer of a S° sacrifice, [Pañcaviṃśa-brāhmaṇa; Gṛhya-sūtra and śrauta-sūtra]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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The Agnistoma Somayaga in the Shukla Yajurveda (by Madan Haloi)
Part 1.1: Appointment of the priests (ṛtvigvaraṇa) < [Chapter 4 - The Agniṣṭoma Ritual]
Asvalayana-grihya-sutra (by Hermann Oldenberg)
Bharadvaja-srauta-sutra (by C. G. Kashikar)