a. & n one who or that which holds or contains or bears or carries; one who assists and corrects a reader of scriptures at a ritual; one who makes another recite mantras, that is scrip tural verses; (an) astringent.
a. & n one who or that which holds or contains or bears or carries; one who assists and corrects a reader of scriptures at a ritual; one who makes another recite mantras, that is scrip tural verses; (an) astringent.