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tatpuruṣa

tat—puruṣa m. the original or supreme spirit (one of the 5 forms of Īśvara [also °ṣa-vaktra] [Sarvad. vii]), [Kāṭh. xvii, 1]; [TĀr. x, 1, 5 f.]; [LiṅgaP. i, 13]

the servant of him, [KātyŚr. vii, 1, 8]

N. of a Kalpa period, [MatsyaP. liii, 41]

a class of compounds (formed like the word tat-puruṣa, ‘his servant’) in which the last member is qualified by the first without losing (as the last member of Bahu-vrīhi compounds) its grammatical independence (whether as noun or adj. or p.)

two subdivisions of these compounds are called Karma-dhāraya and Dvi-gu (qq.vv.)