^There is a community of people in India called
Rajpurohit, but the term is also synonymous with Rajguru as an ancient term for a type of
Brahmin.
Hermann Kulke and
Dietmar Rothermund stated, "There is much evidence in ancient texts that there were two ideal types of Brahmins in those days, the royal priest or advisor (rajpurohit, rajguru) and the sage (rishi) who lived in the forest and shared his wisdom only with those who asked for it."[1] Its modern use in this sense has been described by
Sumit Sarkar as a "self-conscious archaism."[2]