Hello everyone, how are you all? I wish you all well. Today I'm excited to share with you my latest artwork, 'आकाश Akasha'.
Akasha or Akash (Sanskrit : ākāśa आकाश) means space or sky or aether in traditional Indian cosmology. The term has also been adopted in Western occultism and spiritualism in the late 19th century. In many modern Indo-Aryan languages (a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family) and Dravidian languages (family of languages spoken by people in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan) the corresponding word (often rendered Akash) retains a generic meaning of "sky".
The word in Sanskrit is derived from a root kāś meaning "to be". It appears as a masculine noun in Vedic Sanskrit (an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family) with a generic meaning of "open space, vacuity". In Classical Sanskrit, the noun acquires the neuter gender and may express the concept of "sky; atmosphere". In Vedantic (one of the six orthodox Hindu philosophy) philosophy, the word acquires its technical meaning of "an ethereal fluid imagined as pervading the cosmos".
In Vedantic Hinduism, akasha means the basis and essence of all things in the material world; the first element created. A Vedic mantra "pṛthivyāpastejovāyurākāśāt" indicates the sequence of initial appearance of the five basic gross elements. Thus, first appeared the space, from which appeared air, from that fire or energy, from which the water, and therefrom the earth. It is one of the Panchamahabhuta, or "five gross elements"; its main characteristic is Shabda (an utterance in the sense of linguistic performance). The direct translation of akasha is the word meaning "upper sky" or 'space' in Hinduism.
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