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[Alexandr Korol]

Prithivi — the element of earth, associated with smell.
Jala or Ap — the element of water, associated with taste.
Tejas — the element of fire, associated with vision.
Vayu — the element of air, associated with touch.
Akasha — the element of space or ether, associated with sound.”

So let’s check this purely theoretically: I ended the fifth volume with the exploration of what the God of Death is, and that one of the four fundamental elements — the fourth element — was ether. Then, in the eighth volume, I am searching for the fifth element — fire. And now I want to read about what Akasha is, and that is ether, meaning the dodecahedron. So what is it in Hinduism?

“Akasha — in Indian religions, is a special type of space, roughly corresponding to the European concept of “ether”; in phenomenology — “the initial impulse, the beginning of manifestation.”

In Hinduism
It is considered one of the foundations of the material world, one of the five main elements (pancha mahabhuta). The Siddha-Siddhanta Paddhati lists the following essential qualities of Akasha: emptiness, continuity, intangibility, blue color, and shabda (sound). Akasha is also one of the nine substances (dravya) in Vaisheshika philosophy.
In the human being, Akasha manifests, in particular, as the subtle sound vibration nada.
In the simplest case, Akasha in Buddhism can be understood as “the absence of resisting matter.” This understanding is sometimes associated with the Theravāda school and was present, in particular, in the Sautrāntika school. In the Sarvāstivāda school, Akasha was understood as a causally unconditioned asamskrita-dharma and as an element (akasha-dhatu). In Mahāyāna, Akasha lies beyond existence and nonexistence and is linked to the concept of shunyata. In the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra, Subhūti, answering the Buddha’s question about the way to study prajñā-pāramitā, states