Shloka 51
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
शब्दादीनामवाप्त्यर्थं बुद्धियुक्तानि वक्ष्यते ।
पादौ पायुरुपस्थश्च हस्तौ वाक् पञ्चमी भवेत् ॥
śabdādīnāmavāptyarthaṃ buddhiyuktāni vakṣyate / pādau pāyurupasthaśca hastau vāk pañcamī bhavet
On dit qu’ils sont reliés à l’intellect (buddhi) pour obtenir le son et les autres objets des sens. (Les cinq organes d’action sont :) les deux pieds, l’anus, les organes génitaux, les deux mains, et la parole comme le cinquième.
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FAQs
Action is not blind: the text ties sense-acquisition to buddhi (discernment), implying responsibility. Since karmendriyas execute impulses, ethical life depends on aligning action-organs with discriminative intelligence.
Sarga: detailing the functional anatomy of the created being (sense and action faculties).
The pairing of cognition (buddhi) with acquisition suggests an inner ritual: offerings of perception and action are to be ‘consecrated’ by discernment, otherwise they become binding karma.