Glossary Term
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- पवित्राः जनाः
- Transliteration
- pavitrāḥ janāḥ
- Rejected alternatives
- ऋषयः, संन्यासिनः
Saints
ऋषयः names the specific class of Vedic seers credited with perceiving the eternal mantras — an inspired-elite category, not every believer. संन्यासिनः names the formal fourth life-stage (āśrama) of world-renunciation within the varṇāśrama-dharma system, a specific institutional status incompatible with ‘all who believe, regardless of life-stage.’