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
それらは、音などの感境を得るために知性(ブッディ)と結びつくと言われる。(行為の五根は)両足・肛門・生殖器・両手、そして第五として言語(発語)である。
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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.