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pu·ru·sha    Audio Help   [poor-uh-shuh] Pronunciation Key
–noun Hinduism.
(in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
Compare prakriti.

[Origin: < Skt puruṣa lit., man]
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Pu·ru·sha    Audio Help   (pōō'rə-shə)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Hinduism
The primeval man, considered to be the soul of the universe, which was created out of his body.


[Sanskrit Puruṣaḥ, from puruṣaḥ, man.]

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