Yati

(from Sanskrit yam, “to restrain”) From
the time of the Vedas, the earliest Hindu
religious texts, the word yati has been
one of the terms used to designate an
ascetic, as someone who had gained
control over himself. At the time of the
Vedas there seems to be some ambivalence for the yatis, since the storm-god
Indra is said to have fought with them,
but in later times the word takes on an
unequivocally positive connotation.