Purushottama
पुरुषोत्तम puruṣottamaThe 'Supreme Person': in the Bhagavad Gita (15.16-18), the highest reality who is other than both the perishable and the imperishable selves, the Paramatman who enters and upholds the worlds.
Where this term appears
- Ishvara, Bhagavan and Brahman: How Hinduism Conceives God Essentials
The Gita systematises this at 15.16-18, distinguishing the perishable self, the imperishable self, and above both the Purushottama , the Supreme Person, named at 15.18, who enters and upholds the worlds.
- The Vishnu Sahasranama Worship
And near the height of them, Purushottama , the supreme Person, the highest self.
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
The tradition gives Rama a title for this: maryada purushottama , which is glossed as the supreme upholder of maryada , the proper limits and bounds, the perfect man within the line of right behaviour.
- Who is Rama? Deities
Rama is the seventh avatar of Vishnu and the prince of Ayodhya, revered as the *maryada purushottama*, the ideal man who upholds dharma whatever it costs him. His…
- Jagannātha and Viśvāvasu Treatise
He called himself the deputy of Viṣṇu, and the son of Puruṣottama, and through 1230 a series of dated donations laid the Orissan empire at the feet of its deity.
- The First Poem Treatise
Rama is held up as the maryada purushottama , the supreme person who keeps within the bounds, the one who does the right thing at every turn even when it costs him everything, the living measure of dharma .
- The Shankaracharya Tradition In The Modern Period Treatise
…rly Sringeri inscription at all, nor in the fifteenth-century life of Purushottama Bharati held in Sringeri's own archive.
- The Sun's Two Roads Treatise
It is called the purushottama masa , the month of the Supreme, said to have been claimed by Vishnu himself because no other deity would take a month so irregular.