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
وہ آواز وغیرہ (حسی موضوعات) کے حصول کے لیے بُدھی سے مربوط کہے جاتے ہیں۔ کرم اِندریاں—دو پاؤں، مقعد، عضوِ تناسل، دو ہاتھ اور پانچویں وाणी (گفتار)۔
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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.