siddhan.
In Indian religions, one who has attained perfection, a saint, a semi-divine being; spec. in Jainism, a perfected, bodyless being, freed from the cycle of rebirths.
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1846 H. H. Wilson Sketch Relig. Sects Hindus ii. 17 A few of the Tántrikas worship the Siddhas, or Genii,..the same class furnishes occasional votaries of the..Gandharbas, and even of the..goblins and ghosts.
1883 M. Williams Relig. Thought & Life in India vii. 191 All who are uninitiated into this system [sc. Sāktism] are styled ‘beasts’ (pasu), the initiated being called Siddha, ‘the perfect ones’.
1971 Illustr. Weekly India 11 Apr. 11/3 At the end of a period of thirty years, the venerable ascetic Mahavir became a siddha, freed from the cycle of birth.
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