("sacrifice's patron"). The yajamana was the person who commissioned the sacrifice and paid for its fulfillment, and therefore stood to profit from its expected benefits, according to the Vedas, the earliest Hindu religious literature.
This word distinguishes the connection between the priest
and the patron: the former were erudite men and ritual technologists who
understood how to execute elaborate sacrificial rituals, but they were reliant
on the patronage of their sponsors for their subsistence.
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