Definitions for purusha

purusha pu·ru·sha

Spelling: [poo r-uh-shuh]
IPA: /ˈpʊər ə ʃə/

Purusha is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in purusha (ahprsuu).

Definitions for purusha

noun

  1. (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.

Origin of purusha

From the Sanskrit word puruṣa literally, man

Examples for purusha

When (the gods) divided purusha, into how many parts did they cut him up?

The soul (tman or purusha) uses the mind and senses: they are its instruments rather than parts of it.

purusha himself is this whole (universe), whatever has been and whatever shall be.

When they divided purusha, into how many parts did they distribute him?

The purusha Sukta is the type of many other Indian myths of creation, of which the following one is extremely noteworthy.

This victim, purusha born in the beginning, they consecrated on the sacrificial grass.

On the Paloure River a beaver suffers in the manner of purusha.

purusha is the philosophical term for the Primordial Male, of which Prakriti is the female antithesis.

He supplied the protoplasm of the Tinnehs, as purusha did that of the Aryan world, out of his own body.

purusha himself is this whole (universe); whatever has been, and whatever shall be.

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