transferred. Applied e.g. to persons who are the objects of posthumous reverence in non-Christian religions. †Also rarely to heathen deities, etc.

A holy seer; a saint; spec. one of the holy poets or sages believed to have composed the hymns and other sacred writings forming the Vedas.

In Indian religions, one who has attained perfection, a saint, a semi-divine being; spec. in Jainism, a perfected, bodyless being, freed from the…