isi
- a holy man, one gifted with special powers of insight & inspiration, an anchoret, a Seer, Sage, Saint, “Master” DN.i.96 (kaṇho isi ahosi); SN.i.33, SN.i.35, SN.i.65, SN.i.128, SN.i.191, SN.i.192 SN.i.226 sq., SN.i.236 (ācāro isīnaṃ); SN.ii.280 (dhammo isinaṃ dhajo) AN.ii.24, AN.ii.51; Vin.iv.15 = Vin.iv.22 (˚bhāsito dhammo); Iti.123; Snp.284, Snp.458, Snp.979, Snp.689, Snp.691, Snp.1008, Snp.1025, Snp.1043, Snp.1044 Snp.1116 (dev˚ divine Seer), Snp.1126, Cnd.149 (isi-nāmakā ye keci isi-pabbajjaṃ pabbajitā ājīvikā nigaṇṭhā jaṭilā tāpasā) Dhp.281; Ja.i.17 (Ja.v.90: isayo n’ atthi me samā of Buddha) Ja.v.140 (˚gaṇa), Ja.v.266, Ja.v.267 (isi Gotamo); Pv.ii.6#14 (yama-niyam’ ādīnaṃ esanatthena isayo Pv-a.98); Pv.ii.13#3 (= jhān’ ādīnaṃ guṇānaṃ esanatthena isi Pv-a.163); Pv.iv.7#3 (= asekkhānaṃ sīlakkhandh’ ādīnaṃ esanatthena isiṃ Pv-a.265); Mil.19 (˚vāta), Mil.248 (˚bhattika); DN-a.i.266 (gen isino); Sdhp.200, Sdhp.384. See also mahesi.
- (in brahmanic tradition) the ten (divinely) inspired singers or composers of the Vedic hymns (brāhmaṇānaṃ pubbakā isayo mantānaṃ kattāro pavattāro), whose names are given at Vin.i.245; DN.i.104, DN.i.238; AN.iii.224, AN.iv.61 as follows: Aṭṭhaka Vāmaka, Vāmadeva, Vessāmitta, Yamataggi (Yamadaggi) Angirasa, Bhāradvāja, Vāseṭṭha, Kassapa, Bhagu.
- -nisabha the first (lit. “bull”) among Saints, epithet of the Buddha Snp.698; Vv.16#7 (cp. Vv-a.82).
- -pabbajjā the (holy) life of an anchoret Vism.123; Dhp-a.i.105; Dhp-a.iv.55; Pv-a.162.
- -vāta the wind of a Saint Mil.19; Vism.18
- -sattama the 7th of the great Sages (i.e. Gotama Buddha as 7th in the sequence of Vipassin, Sikhin, Vessabhu Kakusandha, Koṇāgamana & Kassapa Buddhas) MN.i.386; SN.i.192; Snp.356; Thag.1240 (= Bhagavā isi ca sattamo ca uttamaṭṭhena Snp-a.351); Vv.21#1 (= buddha-isinaṃ Vipassi-ādīnaṃ sattamo Vv-a.105). Isika (isika)
Vedic ṛṣi fr. ṛṣ. Voc. ise Snp.1025; pl. npm. isayo, gen. isinaṃ SN.ii.280 & isīnaṃ SN.i.192; etc. inst. isibhi Thag.1065–Thag.1.