sthitasthāpakas tu mūrtimaddravyaguṇaḥ, yo hi ghaṇāvayavasanniveśaviśiṣṭaṃ kālāntarāvasthāyinaṃ svamāśrayaṃ prayatnenānyathākṛtaṃ pūrvavad yathāvasthitaṃ sthāpayati /
The quality of elasticity (sthitasthāpaka) is a quality of corporeal substances, which indeed restores its own substrate—characterized by a solid arrangement of parts and enduring for some time—to its original position after it has been altered by [external] force.