Pathavi
paṭhavi 1. solidity, hardness softness;
2. Pathavi is earth element. It is the nature that is firmness or hardness or softness which depends on density and organisation between and among atoms, molecules, compounds, and complexes of materials from science sense. Its nature can be sensed through kaya pasada rupa that exist in the body and pathavi will be perceived as hardness softness of materials.
Paṭhavī (f.) [Ved. pṛthivī, doublets in Pāli pathavī, puthavī, puthuvī, puṭhuvī, see Geiger, P.Gr. §§ 124, 17n. To ad., pṛthu: see puthu, prath to expand, thus lit. the broad one, breadth, expansion. Not (as Bdhgh at Vism 364: patthaṭattā pathavī, cp. Cpd. 155 even modern linguists!) to be derived fr. pattharati] the earth. Acc. to Nd2 389 syn. with jagati. It figures as the first element in enumn of the 4 elements (see dhātu 1), viz. p., āpo, tejo, vāyo (earth, water, fire, wind or the elements of the extension, cohesion, heat and motion: Cpd. 155). At D iii.87 sq.≈ Vism 418 rasa˚ is opposed to bhūmi -- pappaṭaka. Otherwise it is very frequent in representing the earth as solid, firm, spacious ground. See D ii.14, 16; M i.327 sq.; S i.113 (p. udrīyati), 119 (id.), 186; ii.133, 169 sq.; v.45, 78, 246, 456 sq.; A ii.50; iv.89, 374, v.263 sq.; Sn 307, 1097; It 21; Dh 41, 44, 178 (pathavyā); Pv ii.66; Miln 418; PvA 57, 75, 174. -- mahā˚ M i.127; Sii.179, 263; iii.150; J i.25, 74; iii.42; Miln 187; aya˚ iron soil (of Avīci) DhA i.148. In compn both paṭhavī˚ & pathavi˚.
-- ojā (paṭhavojā) sap or essence of the earth DhA ii.154. -- kampa shaking the earth, an earthquake DA i.130. -- kampana=kampa J i.47. -- kasiṇa the earth artifice (see Dhs trsl 43) D iii.286. -- dhātu the earth element (see above) D i.215; ii.294; iii.228, 247; M i.185; 421; S ii.170; Dhs 588, 648, 962 (cp.Dhs. trsln 241); Nett 73, 74; VbhA 55; -- maṇḍala the circle of the E. D i.134; S i.101; A iv.90. -- rasa taste of earth S i.134; SnA 5. -- lekha writing on (or in) carth A i.283; Pug 32. -- saññā earth consciousness M. ii.105; A iv.312; v.7 sq., 318 sq. 353 sq. -- sama like the earth M i.127, 423; Dh 95.
