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Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- पञ्चमहाभूतपञ्चभूतमहाभूत
- Hindi
- पंचमहाभूतपांच तत्व
- English
- Five great elementsfive elementspanchamahabhutaearth water fire air space
- Romanized
- panchamahabhutapanchabhuta
What the text says
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Physiology2
The five elements—earth, water, fire, air and space—are said to cause the manifestation and origin of tastes such as sweet in every substance; when, in their mutual interpenetration, the share of water is greater, the substance turns liquid.
Although all five elements interpenetrate in water, the taste that appears in a given water is that of the element present in the largest share; likewise in all substances, which contain all five elements, specific qualities arise according to which elements are primary and which secondary.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Principle
- Categories
- Mahabhuta
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 5
- Extraction tasks
- T03
- Record id
- concept_panchamahabhuta