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Vedic priesthood
Priests of the Vedic religion were officiants of the yajna service as persons trained for the ritual and proficient in its practice, they were called ṛtvij ("regularly-sacrificing"); as members of a social class, they were generically known as vipra ("sage") or kavi ("seer");
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