Rishis (i.e. seers), a name given by the Hindus to seven wise men whose eyes had been opened by the study of the sacred texts of their religion, the souls of whom are fabled to be incarnated in the seven stars of the Great Bear.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rishanger, William * Ristori, Adelaide