Shloka 5

Devanagari script

इत्येतै: पञ्चभि र्भूतैर्युक्ते स्थावरजजड्भमम्‌ । श्रोत्रं ग्राणं रस: स्पर्शो दृशटिश्रेन्द्रियसंज्ञिता:,इस प्रकार सारा स्थावर-जंगम जगत्‌ इन पाँच भूतोंसे युक्त है। इन्हींके सूक्ष्म अंश श्रोत्र (कान), प्राण (नासिका), रसना, त्वचा और नेत्र--इन पाँच इन्द्रियोंके नामसे प्रसिद्ध हैं

Transliteration

ity etaiḥ pañcabhir bhūtair yukte sthāvarajaṅgamaṁ jagat | śrotraṁ ghrāṇaṁ rasaḥ sparśo dṛṣṭiś cendriya-saṁjñitāḥ ||

Translation

এইদৰে স্থাবৰ আৰু জঙ্গম—সমগ্ৰ জগত এই পাঁচ ভূতেৰে যুক্ত। ইহঁতৰ সূক্ষ্ম অংশৰ পৰাই শ্ৰোত্ৰ, ঘ্ৰাণ, ৰসনা, স্পৰ্শ (ত্বক) আৰু দৃষ্টি (চক্ষু)—এই পাঁচ ইন্দ্ৰিয় প্ৰসিদ্ধ।

Word by Word

इतिthus

एतैःby these

पञ्चभिःby five

भूतैःelements (beings)

युक्तेwhen/where (it is) endowed/connected

स्थावर-जङ्गमम्the immobile-and-mobile (world)

श्रोत्रम्ear; organ of hearing

घ्राणम्nose; organ of smell

रसःtaste (sense/essence)

स्पर्शःtouch

दृष्टिःsight; vision

इन्द्रिय-संज्ञिताःcalled ‘sense-organs’

Speaker

भरद्वाज उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bharadvāja

pañca-bhūta (five elements)

śrotra (ear)

ghrāṇa (nose)

rasanā/jihvā (tongue; implied by rasa)

tvac (skin; implied by sparśa)

netra/cakṣus (eye; implied by dṛṣṭi)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

All embodied experience is grounded in the five great elements, and the sense-faculties arise from the subtle aspects of those elements; understanding this supports discernment between the material constituents and the knowing self.

What is happening in the narrative?

In a didactic passage of the Śānti Parva, Bharadvāja explains a cosmological-psychological framework: the world (moving and unmoving) is made of five elements, and the five senses are derived from their subtle portions.