SB 11.22.16 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

शब्द: स्पर्शो रसो गन्धो रूपं चेत्यर्थजातय: । गत्युक्त्युत्सर्गशिल्पानि कर्मायतनसिद्धय: ॥ १६ ॥

Verse text

śabdaḥ sparśo raso gandho rūpaṁ cety artha-jātayaḥ gaty-ukty-utsarga-śilpāni karmāyatana-siddhayaḥ

Synonyms

śabdaḥ — sound ; sparśaḥ — touch ; rasaḥ — taste ; gandhaḥ — fragrance ; rūpam — form ; ca — and ; iti — thus ; artha — of sense objects ; jātayaḥ — the categories ; gati — movement ; ukti — speech ; utsarga — excretion (by both the genitals and anus) ; śilpāni — and manufacture ; karma — āyatana — by the above-mentioned working senses ; siddhayaḥ — accomplished .

Translation

Sound, touch, taste, smell and form are the objects of the knowledge-acquiring senses, and movement, speech, excretion and manufacture are functions of the working senses.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Sound, touch, taste, smell and form are the sense objects of the knowledge-acquiring senses. Movement, speech, excretion of wastes and semen, and manufacture are functions of the working senses, but these are not counted as elements. With five sense objects of the knowledge senses, the total of the previous list twenty-five. “But are not the five functions of the working senses also additional elements?” No. movement, speaking, urinating, defecating, ejaculation and manufacturing are the results of the action senses, but are not included as elements.

Purport

Here the word utsarga refers to evacuation by the genitals and anus, and thus constitutes two elements. In this way ten elements are listed here in two sets of five.