[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.1417 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.1417 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.1417 - **Language:** English ### [c9.1417](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.1417) ŚARĪRA. (BODY). Body is constituted of the five elements, earth, water, fire, air and sky (ether). What is solid or hard in the body is earth; liquid, is water; hot or burning, fire; what gives motion to the body is air and what are pores in the body is sky. - [Previous: c9.1416](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.1416) - [Next: c9.1418](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.1418) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.1417](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.1417) · Pramāṇa