Shloka 10
Śakra–Namuci-saṃvāda: Śoka-nivāraṇa and Daiva-vicāra
Indra and Namuci on grief, composure, and inevitability
श्रवर्णं स्पर्शनं जिह्दा दृष्टिनासा तथैव च । इन्द्रियाणीति पज्चैते चित्तपूर्व गता गुणा:
śravaṇaṁ sparśanaṁ jihvā dṛṣṭi-nāsā tathaiva ca | indriyāṇīti pañcaite citta-pūrva-gatā guṇāḥ ||
ビーシュマは語った。「聴覚、触覚、舌、視覚、そして鼻—これが五つの感官である。音などの性質は、まず心（マナス）に取り上げられ、そののち諸感官を通して経験される対象となる。すなわち、感覚経験は心の先行する関与と方向づけによって形づくられる。」
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The five senses function as channels of knowledge, but their objects (sound, touch, form, taste, smell) are mediated by the mind; therefore ethical self-mastery begins with governing the mind that precedes and directs sensory engagement.
In Śānti Parva’s instruction, Bhīṣma continues his discourse on inner discipline by enumerating the five perceptive faculties and explaining how sense-objects become experienced through them in conjunction with the mind.