A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
‘great elements’, the four substances or elemental forces which constitute the material world: .png)
(earth, solidity), āpas (water, fluidity), vāyu (air, vibration) and agni (fire, warmth, light), with ākāśa (ether, space) added as a fifth one in some systems.
In monistic teachings such as Advaita Vedānta they are the last or grossest emanations of the one divine source; in other systems such as 
they are the products of the forces of nature (i).png)
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