Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
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.