Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Sudanese Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.
A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), an anti-colonial polity in modern Somalia headed by Sufis.
One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.
A Vedic poet and seer who composed Rigvedic hymns, who alone or with others invokes the deities with poetry of a sacred character.
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.