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purusha
[ poor-uh-shuh ]
noun
, Hinduism.
- (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of purusha1
From the Sanskrit word puruṣa literally, man
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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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