sadasyà m. ‘present in the sacrificial enclosure’, an assessor, spectator, member of an assembly (at a sacrifice), a superintending priest, the seventeenth priest (whose duties accord. to the Kuṣītakins, are merely to look on and correct mistakes), [TS.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [MBh.]; [BhP.]
a person belonging to a learned court-circle, [Jātakam.]