manuṣya

English

Noun

manuṣya (plural manuṣyas)

1. Alternative spelling of manusya (“man, human being”).
   • 1993, Virchand Raghavji Gandhi, Nagīna Jī Śāha, Religion and philosophy of the Jainas‎^[1], Ahmedabad: Jain International, →OCLC, page 49:

     I shall now refer to the four states of existence. They are nāraka, tiryañca, manuṣya, and deva. […] The third is manuṣya of being a man and the fourth is deva, that of being a denizen of the celestial world.

   • 2021 May 28, A R Krishna Sastri, “Kathāmṛta - 40 - Madanamañcukā-lambaka - The Story of Uṣā - Kaliṅgasenā's travel to Kauśāmbi”, in Prekṣā: A Journal of Culture and Philosophy‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 September 2021:

     Uṣā was the daughter of Bāṇāsura. She pleased Gaurī who gave a boon to her, ‘You’ll marry the prince who’d appear in your dreams!’ She likewise dreamt of a divine prince one day and confided it to her friend Citralekhā. She was an expert in yoga; she said, ‘the boon of Devī would never go futile; but without knowing the name, lineage, but nothing about him – name, lineage, appearance – is known! How can he be found? I’ll draw the whole world with all its inhabitants, the devas, the rākṣasas and the manuṣyas; if you can find your beloved let me know; I’ll bring him to you.’ saying so she drew everything in the world.