The corpus record — Sanskrit

puṃsaḥ

1. puṃs cl. 10. puṃsayati, to crush, grind, Dhātup. xxxii, 94 ( Nom. fr. next?).

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Distribution

Taittiriya Upanisad 1 · 1.89/10k
Bhagavad Gita 1 · 1.16/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 4 · 0.53/10k

Senses

1. puṃs

1. puṃs cl. 10. puṃsayati, to crush, grind, Dhātup. xxxii, 94 ( Nom. fr. next?).

2. puṃs

2. puṃs m. (the strong cases from pumāṃs [ cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 89 ]; sg. nom. pumān; voc. pumas or puman; acc. pumāṃsam; du. nom. pumāṃsau; pl. nom. pumāṃsas [ irreg. puṃsas, MBh. iii, 13825 ]; the weak from puṃs [ e.g. sg. instr. puṃsā; loc. puṃsi acc. pl. puṃsas], which loses its s before consonants

3. puṃs

the soul, spirit, spirit of man (= puruṣa; with para or parama, the Supreme Spirit, Soul of the Universe, Viṣṇu ), KapS. ; Tattvas. ; Sāṃkhyak. ; MBh. ; Pur. ; Kathās.

Attestations

puṃsaḥ Bhagavad Gita 2.62
puṃsāṃ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,4.23
puṃsā Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_6,3.1
puṃsā Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_6,3.2
puṃse Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_6,4.20
puṃsāṃ Taittiriya Upanisad TaittU_1,5.1

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.