Mahābhūtas
“the five gross elements”
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Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa (Sanskrit)
The well-known elements — earth, fire, water, and air — are made otherwise by the wise through the power of mantra.
mahābhūta“five gross elements”1 mention
Sāṃkhyakārikā (Sanskrit)
from these five [arise] the five gross elements.
in the texts
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
The classical physical elements (earth, fire, water, air), named as susceptible to transformation by the power of mantra.
The well-known elements — earth, fire, water, and air — are made otherwise by the wise through the power of mantra.
Sāṃkhyakārikā
The five gross physical elements arising from the subtle elements, constituting the specific (viśeṣa) bodies.
from these five [arise] the five gross elements.
and from five of that set of sixteen [arise] the five gross elements.
the subtle [bodies], those born of mother and father, together with the gross elements.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The five gross elements (ether, air, fire, water, earth), final evolutes produced from the subtle elements and constituents of the gross body.
within water, tenfold-multiplied, earth arises—and that very [earth] is the seed of the gross body.
five organs of knowledge, five organs of action, the eleventh being the mind, and five great elements—this group of sixteen is modification only, not productive principle.