hotf
ho/tf m. ( fr. √ 1. hu ) an offerer of an oblation or burnt-offering (with fire), sacrificer, priest, ( esp. ) a priest who at a sacrifice invokes the gods or recites the Ṛg-veda , a Ṛg-veda pr° (one of the 4 kinds of officiating priest See ftvij , p. 224; properly the Hotṛ priest has 3 assistants, sometimes called Puruṣa s, viz. the Maitrā-varuṇa , Acchā-vāka , and Grāvastut ; to these are sometimes added three others, the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin , Agnīdhra or Agnīdh , and Potṛ , though these last are properly assigned to the Brāhman priest; sometimes the Neṣṭṛ is substituted for the Grāva-stut ), RV. &c. &c.