purusha

[ poor-uh-shuh ]

noun

, Hinduism.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of purusha¹

From the Sanskrit word puruṣa literally, man

Example Sentences

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

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

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The two greatest sacrifices were the purusha-medha, the human sacrifice, and aswa-medha, the sacrifice of the horse.

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From the myth of the chaos-giant Purusha we pass to the higher pantheistic conception of Brahmă, the soul of the Universe.

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In Indian mythology Purusha, the chaos giant, first divided himself.

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