1. A deposit or layer.
2. An essential part, ingredient, or portion.
3. A primary element or primitive substance.
4. An essential fluid, secretion, or humor of the body.
5. A bone.
6. A mineral, fossil, metal, or ore.
7. A verbal root.
धातु (dhātu) [Printed book page 0452-c] 1.
dhātu, us, m. (for 2.
dhātu see p. 453, col. 3),
that which is placed or laid, a deposit, layer (Ved.);
a constituent or essential part, an ingredient, (thus
guṇa, string, is the
dhātu of a rope made of several
strings); part, portion, (sometimes used at the end of
an adj. comp. like the English ‘fold,’ see
tri-dhātu, sapta-dh°); an element, primary or elementary
substance, primitive matter (of which five are usually
reckoned or with Brahma six, thus enumerated by
Yājñavalkya III. 145: 1.
Brahma, the eternal spirit;
2.
kha or
ākāśa, ether; 3.
anila, air; 4.
tejas, fire; 5.
jala, water; 6.
bhū, earth: the Buddhists
substitute
Vijñāna for
Brahma: the eighteen ele-
ments or
dhātu-lokas of the southern Buddhists are
the five organs of sense with
manas, the six qualities
observed by these, and six ideas produced by these
six qualities); constituent element or essential ingre-
dient of the body, primary or essential fluid or juice,
a secretion, (the number of which is variously given
as seven or ten; these Dhātus are distinct from the
five elements of which the body also consists, and
are sometimes regarded as Rasas, i. e. secretions or
fluids; they are chyle, blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow,
and semen, to which must be added hair, skin, and
sinews, if ten are reckoned); a humor or affection of
the body (viz. phlegm, wind, and bile); a bone;
(according to some) any one of the five organs of
sense; any one of the five properties or qualities of
the elements observed by the organs of sense (viz.
sound, tangibility, colour, flavour, smell, see under
guṇa); a primary element of the earth or of moun-
tains, a mineral, fossil, metal, ore; a fluid mineral
of a red colour; the primary element of words, a
verbal root; [cf.
upa-dh°, kāma-dh°, giri-dh°, &c.]
—Dhātu-kāya, as, m. ‘body of elements,’ N.
of a Buddhist work by Pūrṇa.
—Dhātu-kāśīśa or
dhātu-kāsīsa, am, n. red sulphate of iron.
—Dhātu- kuśala, as, ā, am, skilled in metals, a metallurgist,
mineralogist.
—Dhātu-kriyā, f. metallurgy, minera-
logy.
—Dhātu-kṣaya, as, m. waste of the bodily
humors, any mortal disease.
—Dhātukṣaya-kāsa, as, m. a consumptive cough.
—Dhātu-garbha, as, m. a receptacle for Buddhist relics, a dagop, (according
to some
da-gop = dhātu-gopa.)
—Dhātu-grāhin, ī, m. calamine.
—Dhātu-ghoṣā, f., N. of a work
on the verbal roots.
—Dhātu-ghna, am, n. sour
gruel prepared from the fermentation of rice-water.
—Dhātu-candrikā, f. ‘elucidation of roots,’ N. of
a grammatical work by Kavi-candra.
—Dhātu-ja = dhātuka, bitumen.
—Dhātu-dīpikā, f. ‘elucidation
of roots,’ N. of a commentary by Durgā-dāsa on
Vopa-deva's collection of roots.
—Dhātu-drāvaka, ‘dissolving metals,’ borax, tinkal.
—Dhātu-nāśana, am, n. ‘destroying the humors,’ sour gruel; [cf.
dhātu-ghna.]
—Dhātu-nyāya-mañjāṣā, f., N. of
Page0453-a+ 81 a work on the radicals.
—Dhātu-pa, as, m. the
alimentary juice or chyle, the chief of the seven
elementary ingredients of the body.
—Dhātu-pā- ṭha, as, m. ‘recital of roots,’ a list or collection of
roots compiled and arranged according to Pāṇini's
system, (the most important and well-known Dhātu-
pāṭha is ascribed to Pāṇini himself.)
—Dhātu-pārā- yaṇa or
dhātu-pārāyaṇīya, am, n., N. of a work
on verbal roots.
—Dhātu-puṣṭi, is, f. nutrition of
the bodily humors.
—Dhātu-puṣpī and
dhātu-pu- ṣpikā, f. a plant,
= dhātṛ-puṣpī.
—Dhātu-pra- dīpa, as, m., N. of a commentary by Maitreya-
rakṣita on the Dhātu-pāṭha.
—Dhātupradīpa-dī- pikā or
dhātupradīpa-ṭīkā, f., N. of a commentary
on the preceding work.
—Dhātu-bhṛt, t, m. ‘bear-
ing metals,’ a mountain; (
t, t, t), promoting the
elementary juices or secretions, robust.
—Dhātu- mañjarī, f., N. of a commentary by Kāśī-nātha on
the Dhātu-pāṭha.
—Dhātu-mat, ān, atī, at, con-
taining or possessing elements or elementary sub-
stances, abounding in minerals or metals.
—Dhātu- mat-tā, f. richness in metals &c.
—Dhātu-maya, as, ī, am, consisting of or abounding in metals,
metallic.
—Dhātu-mala, am, n. impure excretion
from the essential fluids of the body; lead (the most
impure of metals).
—Dhātu-mākṣika, am, n. a
mineral substance, sulphuret of iron.
—Dhātu-mārin, ī, m. ‘dissolving metals,’ sulphur; (
iṇī), f. borax.
—Dhātu-ratna-mālā, f., N. of a medical work by
Deva-datta.
—Dhātu-ratnāvalī, f. ‘a necklace or
string of roots,’ N. of a metrical collection of roots
by Rādhā-kṛṣṇa.
—Dhātu-rājaka, am, n. ‘the
chief of the essential fluids of the body,’ semen, the
seminal fluid.
—Dhātu-lakṣaṇa, am, n., N. of a
work.
—Dhātu-vallabha, am, n. ‘friend of metals,’
borax (used as a flux).
—Dhātu-vāda, as, m. metal-
lurgy, mineralogy.
—Dhātuvādin, ī, m. an assayer,
miner, mineralogist, metallurgist.
—Dhātu-vikāra, as, m.
= dhātu-kṣaya.
—Dhātu-viṣ, ṭ, f.
= dhātu- mala, lead.
—Dhātu-vṛtti, is, f. a commentary on
the roots.
—Dhātu-vairin, ī, m. ‘enemy of metals,’
sulphur.
—Dhātu-śekhara, am, n. ‘chief of mine-
rals,’ green sulphate of iron or green vitriol.
—Dhātu- śodhana or
dhātu-sambhava, lead.
—Dhātu-sā- mya, am, n. equilibrium of the bodily humors, good
health.
—Dhātu-han, ‘killing metals,’ sulphur.
—Dhātūpala (°tu-up°), as, m. ‘the stone among
metals,’ chalk.
—Dhātv-artha, as, m. ‘having the
sense of a root,’ i. e. a verb.
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