Paurusheya, Pauruṣeya: 16 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Pauruṣeya can be transliterated into English as Pauruseya or Paurusheya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय).—A demon who travels along with the sun in the month of Jyeṣṭha. (June), (11th Skandha, Bhāgavata).
1a) Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय).—The Rākṣasa presiding over the month of Śukra and Śuci1 with the sun in the summer.2
- 1) Bhāgavata-purāṇa XII. 11. 35; Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa II. 23. 6.
- 2) Vāyu-purāṇa 52. 8; Viṣṇu-purāṇa II. 10. 7.
1b) One of the sons of Yātudhāna, had five sons, all man-eating ones, Krūra, Vikṛta, etc.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 7. 89, 93-4.
1c) A Piśāca.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 69. 127.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Dharmashastra (religious law)
Paurūṣeya (पौरूषेय) refers to “disciplines whose knowledge is contingent on the individual” and representing one of the two types of Śāstra (learned disciplines), all part of the ancient Indian education system, which aimed at both the inner and the outer dimension of a person. Under paurūṣeya there are at least nine disciplines. This body of literature is also described as smṛiti literature in opposition to Vedas and Vedāṅgas that are called śruti literature.
The paurūṣeya disciplines are:
- purāṇa, including itihāsa (record of ancient events),
- ānvīkṣikī (logic),
- mīmāṃsā (analysis/interpretation),
- dharmaśāstra (sociology),
- kāvyavidyā (literary theory),
- kāmaśāstra (erotics),
- śilpaśāstra (architecture),
- arthaśāstra (polity),
- vārtā (agriculture, animal husbandry, trade and commerce).
Dharmashastra (धर्मशास्त्र, dharmaśāstra) contains the instructions (shastra) regarding religious conduct of livelihood (dharma), ceremonies, jurisprudence (study of law) and more. It is categorized as smriti, an important and authoritative selection of books dealing with the Hindu lifestyle.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
pauruṣēya (पौरुषेय).—a S Relating to man, human, manly, virile.
pauruṣēya (पौरुषेय).—a Relating to man, human.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय).—a. (-yī f.) [पुरुष-ठञ् (puruṣa-ṭhañ)]
1) Derived from or belonging to man, human, incidental to man; made, established or propounded by man; as in अपौरुषेया वै वेदाः (apauruṣeyā vai vedāḥ)
2) Manly, virile.
3) Spiritual.
-yaḥ 1 Man- slaughter (puruṣavadha).
2) A crowd of men.
3) A daylabourer, hireling.
4) Human action, man's work.
5) Law as affecting persons.
-yam Human work, action of man.
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय).—(not recorded in these senses; compare prec. and next), (1) m., servant, laborer: Divyāvadāna 86.13; 153.28; 168.28; 274.15, etc.; Avadāna-śataka i.189.8; 315.9, etc.; Mahāvyutpatti 3833; often in [compound] dāsī-dāsa-karmakara-pauruṣeya (the other words precede Mahāvyutpatti 3833), either alone as dvandva subst., or in [bahuvrīhi] preceded by prabhūta-, bahu-, or the like: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 102.2; Lalitavistara 24.20; Mahāvastu i.36.5; 198.8; ii.2.4; 168.13; 420.18; iii.56.9; 177.16; 377.11; Divyāvadāna 229.9; Kāraṇḍavvūha 35.24; Daśabhūmikasūtra 18.28; Bodhisattvabhūmi 119.11; putra-dāra-dāsī-dāsa-pauruṣeya Bodhisattvabhūmi 119.22; (2) m., specially, pañca pauruṣeyān (acc. pl.), the five (kinds of) members of a ship's crew: Avadāna-śataka i.200.5; ii.61.9; but in both places only four are named, viz. āhāra, nāvika, kaivarta, karṇadhāra; in Mahāvyutpatti 3850—55 six are named, nāvika, āhāraka, nirhāraka, karṇa- dhāraka, raṇadhara, kaivarta; (3) adj., or subst. (nt.?) ifc. [bahuvrīhi] (compare Pali porisiya, AMg. porisīya, [Ardha-Māgadhī Dictionary] 5.74, adj. ifc., as high as a man), in sapta-, ṣaṭ-, etc., pauruṣeyaṃ, of seven (six, etc.) times the height of a man: Mahāvastu ii.313.6 ff.; follows tālamātraṃ, in descending order, implying that one tāla, q.v., = 8 pauruṣeya (if this is to be understood as a noun; the noun might be pauruṣa, so used in Sanskrit; see pauruṣya; in the Mahāvastu passage, 313.8-9, a single man's height is expressed by puruṣa-mātram).
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय).—i. e. puruṣa + eya, adj., f. yī, Made by, derivea from, relating to men, Mahābhārata 5, 2645.
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय).—[feminine] ī a relating to man, human. —[masculine] hireling, day-labourer; [neuter] human deed or work.
1) Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय):—[from pauruṣa] mf(ī)n. relating to or derived from or made by man, human, [Ṛg-veda; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Atharva-veda; Brāhmaṇa; Mahābhārata]
2) [v.s. ...] coming from the soul, spiritual, [Kapila [Scholiast or Commentator]]
3) [v.s. ...] m. a hireling, day-labourer, [Saddharma-puṇḍarīka]
4) [v.s. ...] = samūha, vadha or puruṣasya padāntaram (?), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
5) [v.s. ...] Name of a Rākṣasa, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
6) [v.s. ...] n. human action, the work of man, [Atharva-veda]
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय):—[(yaḥ-yā-yaṃ) a.] Of man, manly. m. A crowd; murder; law.
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय):—(von puruṣa)
1) adj. f. ī vom Menschen kommend, unter Menschen geschehend u.s.w. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 10.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 226.] [Medinīkoṣa y. 122.] kravis [Ṛgveda 10, 87, 16.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 7, 105, 1.] vadha [1, 30, 1. 19, 20, 1.] [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 15, 15.] gṛbh [?21, 43 (Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 4, 150). Ṛgveda 7, 4, 3.] mṛtyu [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 10, 3, 49.] ādhi [Mahābhārata 5, 2645.] a ārti [Ṣaḍviṃśabrāhmaṇa 2, 10.] manvādismṛtayaścāpauruṣeyāḥ nicht von Menschen herrührend, verfasst [MUIR, Stenzler II, 190.] [Madhusūdanasarasvatī’s Prasthānabheda] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 14, 5.] von der Seele kommend: bodha [Scholiast] zu [Kapila 1, 88. 101. 102.] m. = samūha oder saṃgha, vadha [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] = puruṣasya padāntaram [Medinīkoṣa] Die ersten Bedeutungen beruhen auf einem Missverständniss der Worte [PATAÑJALI'S] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 10] : puruṣādvadhavikārasamūhatenakṛteṣviti vaktavyam . —
2) m. Miethling, Tagelöhner (= vaitanika) [Vyutpatti oder Mahāvyutpatti 97.] [SADDH. Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.4,9,a.] —
3) n. Menschenthat, Menschenwerk: pauruṣeyā.na daivāt [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4, 26, 7. 10, 3, 4.]
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Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय):—
1) vedavādin der da behauptet, dass der Veda menschlichen Ursprungs sei, [SARVADARŚANAS. 127, 18.] —
4) m. Nomen proprium eines Rākṣasa (nach dem [Scholiast]) [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 12, 11, 35.]
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय):——
1) Adj. (f. ī) — a) von Menschen kommend , von M. herrührend , unter [Mānavadharmaśāstra. ] geschehend. [Mānavadharmaśāstra. ] treffend u.s.w. — b) von der Seele kommend. —
2) m. — a) Miethling , Tagelöhner. — b) angeblich = samūha (saṃgha) vadha , und puruṣasya padāntaram. — c) Nomen proprium eines Rākṣasa. —
3) n. Menschenthat , Menschenwerk.
Pauruṣeya (पौरुषेय) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Paurisa, Porisa.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
Paurūṣeya (पौरूषेय):—(a) manly, vigorous; man-made; hence ~[tā] (nf).
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Kannada-English dictionary
Pauruṣēya (ಪೌರುಷೇಯ):—
1) [adjective] relating to or derived from or made by man; human.
2) [adjective] coming from the soul; spiritual.
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Pauruṣēya (ಪೌರುಷೇಯ):—
1) [noun] that which is derived from, made by man.
2) [noun] a group or multitude of human beings.
3) [noun] a killing of a man.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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