…fish,“ viz. Cyprinus Rohita, which is freq. mentioned in the “Jātaka literature, e.g. Ja.ii.433; Ja.iii.333; Dhp-a.ii.132 (four) 140;…

…of six teachers, who were purohitas. AN.iii.373 The others were Sunetta, Mūgapakkha, Kuddālaka, Hatthipāla and Jotipāla. In the Aṅguttara…

…modern Vidarbha.

In the Saṃyutta Nikāya SN.i.6f. the devaputta Rohitassa says that he was a Bhojaputta in his previous birth.

…Thag.111

Jenta²Purohitaputta

A monk whose Theragāthā verses speak of his former pride and arrogance and how these have been left…

…was known as Vaṅkaka, and the people living on the mountain were called Rohitassā, their term of life being thirty thousand years. SN.ii.191

…life, been a sage called Rohitassa, of great psychic powers, able in one stride to cross from the western ocean to the eastern. With such a…

…in the time of Koṇāgamana Buddha. At that time, Mount Vipula was called Vaṅkaka. The life of a Rohitassa was thirty thousand years. The people…

The king of the Kālingas in the time of Reṇu. His purohita was Jotipāla, and his capital, Dantapura. DN.ii.236

…respectively, Tivaras, Rohitassas and Suppiyas. The mountain has diminished in size, for the Tivaras, who lived for forty thousand years, took…

…brother Khandha and his purohita’s son Tissa; these two later became his chief disciples. His constant attendant was Asoka; Caṇḍā and…

placed in the hollow of a tree.

…Sdhp.92, Sdhp.558.

• -purohita chief or prime minister Ja.vi.391.
• -phala the highest or supreme fruit…

…Dhp-a.ii.155;

• -rohita-maccha fresh fish Ja.iii.333.
• -āvalepana see → adda³.

3. wet = with connotation of…

…the official ministers (purohita, mahāmatta, pārisajja); usually comb^d. with pārisajjā (pl.) viz. DN.i.136 (= piya-sahāyaka…

…white, also Sk ravi sun; an enlarged from of Idg *reu as in Sk. rudhira, rohita red (bloody; see etym under rohita), Gr. ἐρυδρός,…

…loc. cit.) Kv.207 (read ˚purohita for ˚parohita!). -pphoṭana [a-pphoṭana; ā + ph.] a Brahmaapplause divine or greatest applause…

…loc. cit.) Kv.207 (read ˚purohita for ˚parohita!). -pphoṭana [a-pphoṭana; ā + ph.] a Brahmaapplause divine or greatest applause…

…DN.i.193; Ja.v.127 (of a purohita or high priest); Dhp-a.i.33; Dhp-a.iv.176; Pv-a.55 Pv-a.61, Pv-a.64. Freq. in combination *brāhmaṇī…

…Vism.122; Pv-a.161. purohita˚; office of a high-priest (= abstr n. porohiccaṃ) Snp-a.466; vāṇija˚; trade Sāsv. 40
■…

…Vedic loha, of Idg. *(e)reudh “red”; see also rohita & lohita

…a sacrifice of blood DN.i.9; DN-a.i.93.

cp. Vedic lohita & rohita; see also P. rohita “red”

…salt fish Vism.28. rohita˚; the species Cyprinus rohita Ja.ii.433; Ja.iii.333; Dhp-a.ii.132 On maccha in simile see J.P.T.S. 1907,…

…Snp.28
■ The reed itself is called isīkā (q.v.). 2. a sort of fish Ja.iv.70 (+ rohita, taken as dvandva by C.); Ja.vi.278 (id.).

Vedic…

…family priest DN.ii.243. As porohicca at Snp.618 (= purohita-kamma Snp-a.466). Cp. Trenckner, Notes 75.

fr. purohita

Porohita = purohita

Dhp-a.i.174 (variant reading BB pur˚).

…purakkharoti, purekkhāra purohita; purā, pure, puratthaṃ, puratthato. 2 adjectival: purāṇa, puratthima, purima.

on etym. see…

…also appears as *puro in purohita, as *pura in purakkharoti. It belongs to base Idg. *per (cp. pari), as in Cr. πάρος before, earlier…

Porohita = purohita

Dhp-a.i.174 (variant reading BB pur˚).

…Pv-a.74.

purah + pp. of dhā, ch. Vedic purohita

…for ˚iṇī) red cows.

fr. roha = rohita

kind of deer Ja.vi.537 (˚sarabhā migā).

fr. rohita, perhaps directly fr. Vedic rohita ewe, lit. the red one

…See the more freq words rohita & lohita; a form ruhira (q.v.) occurs e.g. at Pv.i.9#1

late Vedic rudhira. Etym. connected with Lat. ruber…

…lohita-pāyin C.).

poetical for ruhira (rohita) = lohita

sort of deer, a stag; usually called ruru-miga Ja.iv.256, Ja.iv.261; Ja.v.406 (pl rohitā rurū), Ja.v.416. Cp. ruruva.

Vedic ruru: RV vi.75, 15

(rohiccasarabhā migā = rohitā sarabhamigā, C. ibid. 538) Sarabhamigajātaka the 483rd Jātaka Ja.i.193, Ja.i.406 (text sarabhanga); Ja.iv.263 sq.

• -pallaṅka “antelope-couch,” a …

…to; ˚nila bluish; upapurohita minor priest uparajja viceroyalty; upalohitaka, uparopa; ˚vana a little forest. etc. Note. The nearest…

minor or assistant priest Ja.iv.304.

upa + purohita, see upa 5

…Ja.iii.52 (satta rohita macche uddharitvā valliyā āvuṇitvā netvā etc.), Ja.iii.333 (in similar connection); Dhp-a.iii.118. 3. in…

…cattār’ angāni of a purohita.

The term mahāyañña refers to the brahmanic ritual (so at MN.ii.204; Dhs-a.145,…

…a priest Snp.312, Snp.313 (= yanna-yājino janā Snp-a.324), Snp.618 (of a purohita; variant reading BB yācaka).

fr. yaj in its Caus. form…