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purusha

purusha noun: in early Vedas, a cosmic man whose sacrifice by the gods created all life.

Noun

purusha (plural purushas)

  1. (Hinduism) In early Vedas, a cosmic man whose sacrifice by the gods created all life.
  2. (Hinduism) 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.

purusha meaning in Sanskrit

purusha in Sanskrit

Purusha, the divine being from whom the universe is said to be originated
पुरुष púruṣa

Forms of purusha

pluralpurushas
alternative formpurusa

Origin of purusha

Borrowed from Sanskrit पुरुष (puruṣa).

Questions about purusha

What does purusha mean?
Purusha means in early Vedas, a cosmic man whose sacrifice by the gods created all life.
What is purusha in Sanskrit?
Purusha in Sanskrit is पुरुष (púruṣa). See Purusha meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is purusha?
Purusha is a noun.
What is the plural of purusha?
The plural of purusha is purushas.

Words near purusha in the dictionary

  1. Purus
  2. purusa
  3. purusartha
  4. purusarthas
  5. purusas
  6. purusha
  7. purushartha
  8. purusharthas
  9. purushas
  10. Purushottam
  11. purvalanol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purusha (page history and authors); पुरुष (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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