an omniscient person who has attained omniscience even without formally learning about the doctrines propounded by the omniscient ones; it indicates that the spontaneous ksayopaśama of the related karma enables one to obtain the knowledge about the truth without any formal discourse and the like; once a soul gets rid of the knowledge-veiling karma, it becomes kevalī, irrespective of whether it had a prior acquintance with the teachings or not.