Kosha – Sheath
lit. sheath, vessel, layer.
Lit. Quality or attribute. Refers to the three qualities of mind: Tamas (inertia), rajas (activity) and sattwa(purity).
Food-formed sheath or the gross body (sthula sharira), made up of the five gross elements or bhoothas earth, wind, water, fire, ether which are resolved again into their initial states after death.