dhatu
धातु dhatuA verbal root, the kernel of action from which words are formed; in Yaska's Nirukta, the basis from which a word's meaning is derived.
Where this term appears
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
There is no dosha theory in the Atharvaveda. No agni, no dhatus, no anatomy, no surgery, no dietetics.
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
To learn what an obscure word means you trace it back to its verbal root, its dhatu , the root that names a doing.
- The Katha Upanishad: the boy who questioned Death Treatise
"The Self, smaller than small, greater than great, is hidden in the heart of that creature," and is seen by the man freed from desire and grief, dhatu-prasadat (1.2.20).