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Muni

MUNI. [Source: Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology] "A holy sage, a pious and learned person, endowed with more or less of a divine nature, or having attained to it by rigid abstraction and mortification. The title is applied to the Rishis, and to a great number of persons distinguished for their writings considered as inspired, as Panini, Vyasa." Their superhuman powers over gods and men have been often displayed, but more frequently in curses.

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