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'''Purusha''' (Skt. puruṣa; [[Wyl.]] ''skyes bu'') - literally the 'person', this is an important feature of the [[Samkhya]] philosophical system. It has nine special features (''khyad par dgu''):

#It has the essence of cognizance, since it discovers objects
#It is unborn, since it is uncreated
#It is an experiencer, since it undergoes pleasure and pain
#It is permanent, since it is beyond arising and degenerating
#It is all-pervasive, since it pervades all the beings of the three worlds
#It has no qualities, since it does not possess the qualities of the [[three gunas]]
#It is a subject, since it is the experiencer of objects
#It is unitary, since it is devoid of parts
#It is unending, since it has neither a beginning nor an end.

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