A seer; one who perceives (from drish, to see) the Vedic hymns. The rishi is a mantra-drashta, who 'sees' the revelation rather than composing it.

Where this term appears

• The Seers Who Heard Treatise →

  The word for seer The Sanskrit term is drashta (दृष्टा), "seer", from the root drish , to see.

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