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 shipʼs 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, karṇadhāraka, 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 manʼs height is expressed by puruṣa-mātram).