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Sanskrit
पुरुष
(
puruṣa
)
Noun
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purusha
(
plural
purushas
)
(
Hinduism
)
In early
Vedas
, a
cosmic
man
whose
sacrifice
by the
gods
created all
life
.
(
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.
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