mfn. knowing, endowed with knowledge or intelligence, wise, (opposed to vi-) knowing the higher knowledge or knowledge of spirit ([Kathās. lxxix]), [Mn. xii, 103]; [Hariv.] &c.
m. a fortune-teller, astrologer, [R. vi, 23, 4]; [Kathās. xviii, 60]; [xix, 77]; [Vet.]
‘possessing religious wisdom’, a sage, [W.]