pauruṣeya (9823)

pauruṣeya
Entry 9823, Page 355, Col. 2

(pOruzeya, pOruzeya)
pauruṣeya¦ (not recorded in these senses; cf. prec. and next), (1) m., servant, laborer: Divy 86.13; 153.28; 168.28; 274.15, etc.; Av i.189.8; 315.9, etc.; Mvy 3833; often in cpd. dāsī-dāsa-karmakara-pauruṣeya (the other words precede Mvy 3833), either alone as dvandva subst., or in Bhvr. preceded by prabhūta-, bahu-, or the like: SP 102.2; LV 24.20; Mv i.36.5; 198.8; ii.2.4; 168.13; 420.18; iii.56.9; 177.16; 377.11; Divy 229.9; Kv 35.24; Dbh 18.28; Bbh 119.11; putra-dāra-dāsī-dāsa-pauruṣeya Bbh 119.22; (2) m., specially, pañca pauruṣeyān (acc. pl.), the five (kinds of) members of a ship's crew: Av i.200.5; ii.61.9; but in both places only four are named, viz. āhāra, nāvika, kaivarta, karṇadhāra; in Mvy 3850--55 six are named, nāvika, āhāraka, nirhāraka, karṇa- dhāraka, raṇadhara, kaivarta; (3) adj., or subst. (nt.?) ifc. Bhvr. (cf. Pali porisiya, AMg. porisīya, Ratnach. 5.74, adj. ifc., as high as a man), in sapta-, ṣaṭ-, etc., pauruṣeyaṃ, of seven (six, etc.) times the height of a man: Mv 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 Skt.; see pauruṣya; in the Mv passage, 313.8-9, a single man's height is expressed by puruṣa-mātram).

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