haMsa:- haMsa/

the soul or spirit (typified by the pure white colour of a goose or swan, and migratory like a goose; sometimes ‘the Universal Soul or Supreme Spirit’, identified with Virāj, Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Kāma, and the Sun; du. ‘the universal and the individual Spirit’; accord. to Sāy. resolvable into ahaM sa, ‘I am that’), Up.; MBh.; Hariv. &c.