pañca—tā f. fivefoldness, fivefold state or amount, [Mn. viii, 151]
an aggregate or a collection of 5 things (esp.) the 5 elements, viz. earth, air, fire, water and akāśa ether, and dissolution into them i.e. death (-tām with √ gam, yā &c., to die, with upa-√ nī, to kill), [Kāv.]; [Suśr.]; [Pur.]