Usually means: Universal soul or consciousness personified.
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  1. purusha: Merriam-Webster
  2. Purusha: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  4. purusha: Wiktionary
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  6. Purusha: Dictionary.com
  7. Purusha: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (purusha)

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