Shloka 41

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

श्रोत्रं त्वक् चक्षुषी जिह्वा नासिका चैव पञ्चमी शब्दादीनामवाप्त्यर्थं बुद्धियुक्तानि तानि वै

Transliteration

śrotraṃ tvak cakṣuṣī jihvā nāsikā caiva pañcamī śabdādīnāmavāptyarthaṃ buddhiyuktāni tāni vai

Translation

耳と皮膚、両眼、舌、そして第五として鼻—これらが五つの感官である。ブッディ（buddhi）の導きを具え、音声をはじめとする諸感境を把握するためにある。

Word by Word

• śrotram: ear (faculty of hearing)

• tvak: skin (faculty of touch)

• cakṣuṣī: the two eyes (faculty of sight)

• jihvā: tongue (faculty of taste/speech-organ)

• nāsikā: nose (faculty of smell)

• ca eva: and indeed

• pañcamī: the fifth

• śabda-ādīnām: of sound and the rest (touch, form, taste, smell)

• avāpti-artham: for the purpose of obtaining/apprehending

• buddhi-yuktāni: joined with/regulated by buddhi (intellect)

• tāni: those (faculties)

• vai: truly/indeed.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological teaching within the Linga Purana discourse)