Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A divinely inspired poet or sage in India, sometimes regarded as a saint.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Skt. myth., an inspired sage or poet; the author of a Vedic hymn.
Wiktionary
- n. A Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with others invokes the deities with poetry of a sacred character.
- n. A Hindu sage or saint occupying the same position in India history as the patriarchs of other countries, constituting a peculiar class of beings in the early mythical system, as distinct from Asuras, Devas and mortal men.
Etymologies
- From Sanskrit ऋषि (ṛ́ṣi), of Common Indo-Iranian source (cognate with Avestan 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬴𐬌𐬴 (ǝrǝšiš, "seer")), probably formed from verbal root √ṛṣ ("to flow, pour"). (Wiktionary)
- Sanskrit ṛṣiḥ. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Join GimpNET with an IRC client and join #tracker, and then ask the guy who goes by the nickname "rishi".”
“DO NOT WANT earl grey fruit tea green green tea harney & sons herbal honeybush kusmi lemon lemongrass mighty leaf my kingdom for a good vanilla tea numi numi tea orange peppermint queen mary red tea republic of tea revolution rishi rooibos rose hips spearmint steven smith tao of tea tazo twinings upton upton tea vanilla vanilla beans yogi tea zhena's gypsy tea”
“NDEs/OOBs, as well as certain rishi meditative and altered states may involve consciousness shifting to a series of smaller/closer - to-the Planck scale, higher frequency and intensity lokas, or astral planes.”
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“When the eternal knower, the rishi, wakes up in anyone, it proclaims,”
“It gets into that whole when to launch thing, but I would still err on the conservative side than the alpha side. reply rishi”
“The great (rishi) muse, worthy of offerings, worthy of honor.”
“Brahmanical rishi with the Sakya house, by means of 1323, 1468,”
““Gautama was the sacerdotal name of the Sakya family, which counted the ancient rishi Gautama among its ancestors.””
“The Sanskrit name means “the city of humpbacked maidens;” with reference to the legend of the hundred daughters of king Brahma-datta, who were made deformed by the curse of the rishi Maha-vriksha, whose overtures they had refused.”
“Rishis are divided into various classes; and rishi-ism is spoken of as a seventh part of transrotation, and rishis are referred to as the seventh class of sentient beings.”
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