English Explanatory Dictionary

purusha

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In early Vedas, a cosmic man whose sacrifice by the gods created all life.
  2. In the Upanishad, an abstract essence of self, spirit, and the Universal Principle that is eternal, without form and all-pervasive, distinguished from the mutable material world.

Word forms

purusha purushas purusa

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit पुरुष (puruṣa).

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