Shloka 15

Devanagari script

रूप॑ गन्धं रसं स्पर्श शब्दं चैवाथ तद्गुणान्‌ । इन्द्रियाणि न बुध्यन्ते क्षेत्रज्ञस्तैस्तु बुध्यते,रूप, गन्ध, रस, स्पर्श और शब्द--इन्द्रियोंके इन पाँचों गुणोंको स्वयं इन्द्रियाँ नहीं जानती हैं। उन इन्द्रियोंद्वारा क्षेत्रज्ञ (जीवात्मा) ही उनका अनुभव करता है

Translation

Form, smell, taste, touch, and sound—these five qualities of the senses are not known by the senses themselves. Rather, through those senses the kṣetrajña, the inner knower, experiences and knows them.

Word by Word

रूपम्form

गन्धम्smell

रसम्taste

स्पर्शम्touch

शब्दम्sound

चand

एवindeed/just

अथthen/and further

तत्that

गुणान्qualities (sense-objects)

इन्द्रियाणिthe sense-organs

नnot

बुध्यन्तेunderstand/know

क्षेत्रज्ञःthe knower of the field (self)

तैःby/through those (sense-organs)

तुbut

बुध्यतेis understood/knows

Speaker

असित उवाच

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes