yájamāna mfn. sacrificing, worshipping &c

• m. the person paying the cost of a sacrifice, the institutor of a sacrifice (who to perform it employs a priest or priests, who are often hereditary functionaries in a family) ŚBr. &c. &c. (ī f. the wife of a Yajamāna BhP.)

• any patron, host, rich man, head of a family or tribe Pañcat.