What is the meaning of the name viraj?
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What is the meaning indicated by the name viraj?
sovereignty, excellence or splendour
Viraj is born from Purusha and Purusha in turn is born from Viraj. In the Atharvaveda, Viraj is a cow or with Prana, the life-breath. In the Mahabharata Viraj is the name of the primeval being, Purusha, identified with Vishnu and Shiva. Manu Smriti 1.32 states that Brahma divided his body into two, one male and the other female, from the female was born Viraj who produced Svayambhuva Manu who created the ten Prajapatis. According to the "Bhavishya Purana" – the male was "Manu" and the female was "Shatarupa", creation commenced with the union of Viraj and Shatrupa. In the Vedanta, Viraj is identified with supreme intellect. Viraj is also the name of a metre.
What is the meaning of the name viraj, taken from the Mahabharata?
the name of the primeval being, Purusha, identified with Vishnu and Shiva
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What is the meaning of the name viraj related to measurements?
metre
Viraj or Virat of the Bhagavad Gita is the Cosmic Body within which body is concentrated the entire creation consisting of both animate and inanimate beings, and whatever else one desires to see, and which Arjuna beheld with all its manifold divisions. Adi Shankara in his Bhasya on Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I.ii.3 explains that "Viraj who was born, himself differentiated or divided himself, his body and organs, in three ways...So this Prana (Viraj), although the self, as it were, of all beings, is specially divided by himself as Death in three ways as fire, air and the sun, without, however, destroying his own form of Viraj."
What is the meaning of the name viraj, as seen in the Bhagavad Gita?
the Cosmic Body within which body is concentrated the entire creation
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What is the meaning of the name viraj, in a general legendary historical context?
the mythical primeval being associated with creation who is often personified as the secondary creator
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The name Viraj has been given various meanings. Those can be sovereignty, excellence or splendour, although, in a general legendary historical context, it is the mythical primeval being associated with creation who is often personified as the secondary creator. When taken from the Mahabharata, it is also the name of the primeval being, Purusha, identified with Vishnu and Shiva, and the Cosmic Body within which body is concentrated the entire creation, as seen in the Bhagavad Gita. Viraj can also be used in contexts related to measurements, in which case it refers to a metre.