पाताल

Borrowed from Sanskrit पाताल (pātāla).

पाताल • (pātāl) m

1. (Hinduism) the underworld, nether

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पाताल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Probably derives from पात (pāta, “fall, descent”), from the root पत् (pat, “to fall”), comparing to its religious location. The termination is likely related to आलय (ālaya, “place”), though compare the names for the other underworld realms which end in तल (tala, “bottom”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɑː.tɑː.lɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pɑː.t̪ɑː.l̪ɐ/

पाताल • (pātāla) stem, n

1. an excavation, a hole in the earth
2. one of the 7 regions under the earth and the abode of the Nagas and Asuras (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

• Pali: pātāla
• Bengali: পাতাল (patal)
• Hindi: पाताल (pātāl)
• Odia: ପାତାଳ (pātāḷa)

• Monier Williams (1899) “पाताल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0616.