múni m. (accord. to [Uṇ. iv, 122] fr. √ man) impulse, eagerness (?), [RV. vii, 56, 8]
(prob.) any one who is moved by inward impulse, an inspired or ecstatic person, enthusiast, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]
a saint, sage, seer, ascetic, monk, devotee, hermit (esp. one who has taken the vow of silence), [ŚBr.] &c. &c. (with hṛdayeṣu sthitaḥ, the internal monitor or conscience, [Mn. viii, 91])
a Brāhman of the highest (eighth) order, [Hcat.]
N. of a son of Kuru, [MBh.]
of a son of Dyuti-mat, [MārkP.]
of Vyāsa, [Kir.]
of Bharata, [Sāh.]
of Agastya, [L.]
of a Buddha or Arhat, [Lalit.]
of Pāṇini &c. (cf. -traya)
of other men, [VP.]
of various authors, [Cat.]
of various plants (Agati Grandiflora, Buchanania Latifolia, Butea Frondosa, Terminalia Catappa, the mango-tree and Artemisia Indica), [L.]
pl. ‘the celestial Munis’, N. of the seven stars of Ursa Major (and there fore a symbolical N. for the number ‘seven’), [Var.]; [Sūryas.]; [Śrutab.]
múni f. a female Muni (also ī), [Uṇ. iv, 122], Sch.
N. of a daughter of Dakṣa (and wife of Kaśyapa), mother of a class of Gandharvas and Apsaras (cf. mauneya), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
múni n. N. of a Varṣa (called after a royal Muni), [VP.]