[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.1206 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1206 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1206 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1206) MUNI. "A holy sage, a pious and learned person, endowed with more or less of a divine nature, or having attained to it by rigid abstraction and mortification. The title is applied to the Rishis, and to a great number of persons distinguished for their writings considered as inspired, as Pāṇini, Vyāsa." Their superhuman powers over gods and men have been often displayed in blessings, but more frequently in curses. - [Previous: c5.1205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1205) - [Next: c5.1207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1207) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1206) · Pramāṇa