पाताल
Sanskrit
Etymology
According to Monier, it probably derives from Sanskrit पात (pāta, “watched, protected”), from √पा (pā)
Adjective
पाताल • (pātāla) n
- an excavation, a hole in the earth
- one of the 7 regions under the earth and the abode of the nagas and demons (cf. RTL. 102 n. 1 &c) sometimes used as a general noun for the lower regions or hells
- c. 400 CE, Kālidāsa, Raghuvaṃśa 1.80:
- हविषे दीर्घसत्रस्य सा चेदानीं प्रचेतसः।
भुजङ्गपिहितद्वारं पातालमधितिष्ठति- haviṣe dīrghasatrasya sā cedānīṃ pracetasaḥ.
bhujaṅgapihitadvāraṃ pātālamadhitiṣṭhati - present there in the netherworld -behind doors, sentineled by thicksnakes-
was too the wise(man) with offertories for a long(standing) ritual
- haviṣe dīrghasatrasya sā cedānīṃ pracetasaḥ.
- हविषे दीर्घसत्रस्य सा चेदानीं प्रचेतसः।
Descendants
- Hindi: पाताल (pātāl)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “पाताल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0616.
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