suta
सूत sūtaA bard of the charioteer-storyteller caste; the suta reciters were the oral transmitters of the epics, and the Mahabharata frames itself as told by the suta Ugrashravas.
Where this term appears
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
So they turn to a man seated among them, a bard of the Suta caste named Lomaharshana, whose name means the one whose telling makes the hair stand on end.
- Thus It Was Treatise
Into that long rite walked a bard, a suta , a man of the storytelling caste named Ugrashravas, fresh from the snake-sacrifice of a king where he had heard a certain enormous poem recited from beginning to end.