Question

why there was importance of priest increased in the vedic period​

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Priests of the Vedic religion are officiants of the yajna service. Yajna is an important part of Hinduism especially the Vedas.[1] persons trained for the ritual and proficient in its practice, they were called ṛtvij ("regularly-sacrificing").[citation needed] As members of a social class, they were generically known as vipra "sage" or kavi "seer". Specialization of roles attended the elaboration and development of the ritual corpus over time. Eventually a full complement of sixteen ṛtvijas became the custom for major ceremonies. The sixteen consisted of four chief priests and their assistants