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Sparśanarasanaghrāṇacaksuḥ śrotrāni || 20 ||
Five sense organs are 1. Sense of touch, 2. Sense of taste, 3. Sense of smell, 4. Sense of sight, and 5. Sense of hearing. Sparśarasagandhvarnasabdastesamarthaḥ || 21 ||
Touch, taste, smell, colour (shape and size included), and sound are the subjects of the aforementioned cognitive sense-organs. (21)
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Śrutamanindriyasya || 22 ||
The subject of the mind or the abstract sense organ is abstract canonical knowledge. (22)
Vāyvantānāmekami || 23 |||
The living beings upto and including Air-bodied ones (The Earthbodied, the Water-bodied, the Vegetational-bodied, the Fire bodied and the Air-bodied living beings) have only one sense-organ each, which is the sense of touch. (23)
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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA : LIVING BEINGS: 27
• Krmipipīlikābhramaramanusyādīnāmekaikavṛddhāni || 24 ||
Creatures like insects, ants, bees and men or animals have progressively one more sense-organs respectively. (24)
• Sañjninaḥ samanskāḥ || 25 ||
Rational living beings have minds. (25)
Transmigratory Motion -
Vigrahagatau karmayogaḥ || 26 ||
In the zig-zag (transmigratory) motion (between death and rebirth) there is (always) endeavour or activity by the fine kärmana (karmic) body. (26)
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