akasha
आकाश akasaEther or space, the subtlest of the five elements, associated in the chakra system with the throat centre (vishuddha) and with sound.
Where this term appears
- Charvaka: the Indian materialists Philosophy
Notably the school usually drops the fifth element that the other systems accepted, akasha , space or ether, on the ground that it cannot be perceived.
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
…cha bhuta : prithvi (earth), ap (water), agni (fire), vayu (air), and akasha (ether, or space).
- Why do Hindus cremate their dead? Essentials
The body is built out of the pancha-mahabhuta , the five great elements: earth, water, fire, air, and akasha , space or ether.
- Vishuddha: The Pure Treatise
Earth, water, fire, air, and now the fifth and subtlest: akasha , ether, space itself, the element out of which the others are said to arise and into which they dissolve.
- What is Vaisheshika? Philosophy
Akasha , ether, is the single, all-pervading medium whose special quality is sound.
- Bhuvaneshvari: She Whose Body Is the World Treatise
…na , so that what we call the universe is her form, and space itself, akasha , with the five elements that fill it, is her extended substance.