पञ्चता

{ pañcatā }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

पञ्च—ता  f.  f. five foldness, fivefold state or amount, [Mn. viii, 151]

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अकाश   an aggregate or a collection of 5 things ( esp.) the 5 elements, viz. earth, air, fire, water and ether, and dissolution into them i.e. death ( -ताम् with √ गम्, या &c., to die, with उप-√ नी, to kill), [Kāv.]; [Suśr.]; [Pur.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

पञ्चता [pañcatā] त्वम् [tvam]   त्वम् 1 Five-fold state.
A collection of five.
The five elements taken collectively.
the body; त्रित्वे हुत्वाथ पञ्चत्वं तच्चैकत्वेऽजुहोन्मुनिः [Bhāg.1.15.42.]
Death, dissolution;
-पञ्चतां, -त्वम् गम्, -या   &c. means 'to be resolved into the five elements of which the body consists', 'to die or perish';
-पञ्चतां, -त्वं नी   'to kill or destroy'; पञ्चभिर्निर्मिते देहे पञ्चत्वं च पुनर्गते । स्वां स्वां योनिमनु- प्राप्ते तत्र का परिवेदना ॥ [Ratn.3.3;] शब्दादिभिः पञ्चभिरेव पञ्च पञ्चत्वमापुः स्वगुणेन बद्धाः Vivekachūdāmaṇi.

Shabda-Sagara

पञ्चता  f.  ( -ता)
1. Death, dying, (i. e.) the separation of the five elements of whose aggregate the body consists.
2. The nature or condition of five, the aggregate of five or five times.
3. The five elements collectively, earth, air, fire, water, and Akās.
E. पञ्च five, and तल् abstract aff.

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