Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 50
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
एकादशं मनस्तत्र देवा वैकारिका: स्मृता: ।
श्रोत्रं त्वक्चक्षुषी जिह्वा नासिका चैव पञ्चमी ॥
ekādaśaṃ manastatra devā vaikārikāḥ smṛtāḥ / śrotaṃ tvakcakṣuṣī jihvā nāsikā caiva pañcamī
ત્યાં મન અગિયારમું સ્મૃત છે; તેના અધિષ્ઠાતા દેવતાઓ ‘વૈકારિક’ તરીકે સ્મરાય છે. જ્ઞાનઇન્દ્રિયો—કાન, ત્વચા, બે આંખો, જીભ અને પાંચમું નાક.
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FAQs
By making mind the ‘eleventh’, the text highlights that sense-data alone does not yield experience; mind coordinates, selects, and synthesizes. Ethically, mastery of mind is implied as the key to mastery of senses.
Sarga: further enumeration of the evolved cognitive instruments.
The ‘eleventh’ mind is the inner sense (antaḥkaraṇa) that binds the five sense streams into a single ‘I experience’ continuum—an esoteric bridge between multiplicity (five) and unity (one experiencer).