The pujari (priest), who is an Udaiyan by caste, then walks down the line, and beheads them one after the other.
When the vessel is nearly empty, the pujari turns it upside down as a sign that the ceremony is ended.
The festival had commenced, and the pujari had tied the kapu (cord dyed with turmeric) on his wrist, when a dispute arose between the trustees of the shrine, which caused the festival to be stopped.
She is then taken to the temple, where the pujari (priest) sprinkles holy water over her head.
During the festival, the pujari sits in the courtyard outside the temple, thickly garlanded with red flowers, and with red kunkuma marks on his forehead.
The caste god is Gurunathan, in whose temples the pujari (priest) is usually a Vannan.
A boy, or the pujari (priest) picks up one of the flowers, and the infant receives the name which is connected with it.
When all the animals are killed, the pujari bails out the blood and water on the ground, uttering mantrams (sacred lines or verses) the while.
The rice is collected in about ten or fifteen large baskets, and is carried on a large cart drawn by buffaloes or bullocks, with the Madiga pujari seated on it.
He acts the part of pujari or priest in all their ceremonies, presides over their tribal meetings, and settles disputes.
The pujari has to fast all that night, and bathe early the next morning.
When the samalu crop is ripe, the Kois summon the pujari on a previously appointed day, and collect from every house in the village a fowl and a handful of grain.
If it does, this is attributed to the Pujari being under pollution from some cause or other.
A corner of the house, or a special room, is set apart for the god, and a member of the family is the pujari (priest).
The pujari then cooks and eats the cock with food which has been supplied him, and the other worshippers also satisfy the cravings of hunger with food they have brought with them.
The gods were then taken back to their temple, and three men, overcome by a mock convulsive seizure, were brought to their senses by stripes on the back administered with a rope by the pujari (officiating priest).
The Pujari and the rest of the community, in like manner, salute the paddy, which is taken inside the house.
Thither the Pujari and the boy proceed, and the deity is worshipped with offerings of cocoanuts, betel, flowers, etc.
The pujari sets to work to kill the cock, and they all beg the demoness, whom they suppose to have entered the pot, not to come to their village again.
Should the Palaiagar fail to bring something down, usage requires that the pujari should deprive him of his kudumi or top-knot.
The Pujari offers up plantains and cocoanuts, and sacrifices a sheep and fowls.
But he does not aspire to full possession; that is reserved for a Pombada or a Nalke, a man of the lowest class, who comes forward when the Billava pujari has exhibited himself for about half an hour.
These are arranged on cots, and a Billava pujari places seven plantain leaves in a row on a cot, and heaps rice thereon.
The pujari goes to the courtyard of the sthana, and piles up a conical mass of cooked rice on a stool.
They work as village watchmen and also as the Majhi or village headman and the Pujari or village priest.
In the case of illness of their children or cattle, or the failure of crops, they consult the Pujari or priest and make an offering.
Even when there is an idol in the temple, the karagam is set up in a corner thereof, and taken daily, morning and evening, in procession, carried on the head of a pujari or other person.
It is the pujari who officiates at the temple services to village deities.
Pujari is an occupational title, meaning priest, or performer of puja (worship).
Pujari has been recorded as a title of Billavas as they officiate as priests at bhutasthanas (devil shrines), and of Halepaiks, and Pujali as a title of some Irulas.
This relates that the god of the Tiruvalur temple was entreated by a pujari (priest) of this place to be present in the village at a sacrifice in his (the god's) honour.
The pujaricalls the representatives of one village, and tells them what Hetheswami says to him, e.
The dairy pujariis here, like the Toda palol, a celibate.
The pujari is not allowed to wander freely about the village, or talk to grown-up women.
The pujari and Kurumba then return to the village, and the former deposits what remains of the grain in the store-room (attu).
The pujari takes with him the materials necessary for doing puja, and, after worshipping Mahalingaswami, the party return to the Hiriya Udaya temple, where milk and cooked rice are offered to the various gods within the temple precincts.
About midday, some Badagas and the temple pujari go from the temple of Hiriya Udaya to that of Mahalingaswami.
On reaching the field selected, the pujari pours the grain into the cloth of the Kurumba, and, yoking the animals to the plough, makes three furrows in the soil.
The women do puja to Hiriya Udaya, and the pujarigives them a small quantity of rice on minige (Argyreia) leaves.
Baidya and Pujarioccur as caste names of the Billavas, and also as a suffix to the name, e.
The people and the pujari play on the kombu [horn], and ring bells while the offerings are being made.
As the people present their offerings, they prostrate themselves, kneeling down and touching the ground with their foreheads, and the pujari gives them some flowers, which they wear in their hair.
This is a small drum which tapers to a narrow waist in the middle, and is held in the left hand of the pujari with one end close to his left ear, while he taps on it with the fingers of his right hand.
The pujari (priest) throws flowers over it in token of adoration, and sits before it with his hands outstretched and his mouth closed until one of the flowers falls into his hands.
Goats and fowls are sacrificed, and the pujari (priest) offers boiled rice and meat to the sylvan deities in a consecrated place.
Each Irula village pays about two annas to the pujari about May or June.
Like the Badaga Devadari, the Irula pujari at times becomes inspired by the god.
Inside the temple, or at the spot selected, the pujari (priest) tries to balance a long sword on its point on the edge of the mouth of a pot, while the alagu men cut their chests with the swords.
The pujari now dresses in a red cloth, with tinsel border, like a Brahman, takes the dancing-club in hand, and dances before the demon.
Nanjundayya writes to me that "their marriages take place at night, a pujariof their caste ties the tali, a golden disc, round the bride's neck.
The pujari sits by, but takes no part in the ceremony.
She puts on clean clothes, and the headman takes her to the temple of their tutelary deity Junjappa, where the caste pujari breaks cocoanuts, and then accompanies her to her house, where a purificatory ceremony is performed.
The Pujari is a Newar, and the temple is considered as the eastern boundary of Nepal Proper.
The pujari (priest) of the temple is a Kuruba (cultivating caste).
All the men of the village accompany the pujari to a neighbouring tree, which must be a Terminalia tomentosa, and set up a stone, which they thus dedicate to the goddess Kodalamma.
Another witness testified that her mother had buried some treasure during her lifetime, and she asked the pujari to discover it.
Every one is bound to bring for the pujari a good hen and a seer of rice, and for himself a cock and half a seer of rice.
A witness gave evidence to the effect that the second accused was the pujari (priest) of a Gangamma temple.
On the second day before the feast, the village pujari must eat only bread.
The pujari also demands from them two annas as his sacrificing fee.
The pujari touched the rice-flour line with the tips of his fingers, and then pressed his knuckles on the same place, thus leaving an exit on the south side.
Hemingway writes that "when the samalu crop is ripe, the Kois summon the pujari on a previously appointed day, and collect from every house in the village a fowl and a handful of grain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pujari" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
