yájamāna mfn. sacrificing, worshipping &c.
yájamāna 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. (f(I). the wife of a Y°, [BhP.])
yájamāna m. any patron, host, rich man, head of a family or tribe, [Pañcat.]