Patala
पाताल pātālaThe subterranean realm below the earth in Hindu cosmology, a world of jewelled serpent-palaces, home of the nagas and other beings of the deep.
Where this term appears
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
The lower seven are the talas : atala, vitala, sutala, talātala, mahātala, rasātala, and at the bottom pātāla .
- Earth and Water Treatise
The naga is the genius of the water: of the well, the spring, the river, the tank, the monsoon-cloud, and of the great subterranean realm of Pātāla , the underworld of jewelled serpent-palaces.