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‖ purusha, n. Hindu Philos.|ˈpuruʃə|
Also 8 Pŏŏrŏŏsh, 9– puruṣa.
[Skr. puruṣa, lit. ‘man’: in Hindu mythology, a being sacrificed by the gods in order to create the universe.]
The universal spirit or soul; spec. in the Sankhya philosophy, the animating principle which, with cosmic matter (*prakriti n.), gives rise to the material, sentient universe.
1785C. Wilkins Bhăgvăt-Gēētā 142 Pooroosh..is a term in theology used to express the vital soul, or portion of the universal spirit of Brăhm inhabiting a body. 1827H. T. Colebrooke in Trans. R. Asiatic Soc. I. 31 The theistical Sánc'hya recognises..by Purusha, not individual soul alone, but likewise GOD..the ruler of the world. 1877M. Williams Hinduism 200 The aim of the Yoga is..fusion or blending of the individual spirit..with Purusha, ‘the universal spirit’. 1923S. Radhakrishnan Indian Philos. I. i. iv. 259 The Sāṁkhya philosophy establishes a dualism between puruṣa and prakṛti. 1925D. H. Lawrence Reflections on Death of Porcupine 127 They've all decided that the beginning of all things is the life-stream itself, energy, ether, libido, not to mention the Sanskrit joys of Purusha, Pradhana, Kala. 1953[see *prakriti n.]. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xxi. 20 Purusha, the One, is like a great actor, and we are all the different roles he has split himself into. 1987V. P. Kanitkar We are Hindus xi. 127 Purusha is the animating principle of nature, which interacts with Prakriti, resulting in material and physical creation and..mental awareness. |