What is pancha bhuta & Its significance to human being..? Pancha bhoota and signifies the five gross elements that compose the material Cosmos—the mahabhuta or pancha bhuta (pancha means five, Bhuta means ‘material element). Pancha Bhoota or Pancha Maha-Bhoota (Sanskrit: पञ्चभूत , पञ्चमहाभूत ; pañca-mahā-bhūta), five great elements, also five physical elements, is a group of five basic elements, which, according to Hinduism, is the basis of all cosmic creation. [1] These five elements which are Earth or Prithvi; Water or Jal ; Fire or Agni; Air or Vayu and then Sky or Akasha or Ether. These elements have different characteristics and these also account for different faculties of human experience. In ayurveda and Indian philosophy, the human body is considered to be made of these five elements. These five elements are connected to the five sense organs of human body because panchabhutas are emerged from Pancha Tanmatra namely Shabda (Sound), Sparsha (Touch), Roopa (Vision), Rasa(T