pOruzya
pauruṣya , ( 1 ) ( nt. ; Pali porisa is used in this sense; cf. pauruṣa ), service, position or activity of a servant : rāja-pauruṣyādi Bbh 195.3 , the position of a kingʼs henchman ; ( 2 ) ifc. , perh. adj. (= Pali porisiya), or subst. in Bhvr. cpd. (na) sādhika-pauruṣyaṃ (vṛkṣam adhirokṣyāmaḥ) Mvy 8629 , (a tree) above a manʼs height ; but Mironov °pauruṣam, and so Prāt 537.18 , implying the noun pauruṣa, manʼs height , so used in Skt. Instead of na sādh° ( Mvy prints nasādh° as one word) Mironov [Page356-a] nāsādh°, erroneously; cf. Pali MN i.74.12 sādhika-porisā, of more than a manʼs height ; this is confirmed by Tib. mi gaṅ tsam las mthor , to the height of an average man . For na sādhika Prāt ( l. c. ) has a lacuna, which Finot fills by the erroneous nāsādhikaṃ from Minayeff ʼs Mvy . Cf. prec. (3).