Verses on Sāṃkhya 27.3

27.3

cakṣurādīni sparśanaparyantāni buddhīndriyāṇyucyante / spṛśyate aneneti sparśanaṃ tvagindriyaṃ tadvācī siddhaḥ sparśanaśabdo 'sti tenedaṃ paṭhyate sparśanakānīti śabdasparśarūparasagandhān pañcaviṣayān budhyante avagacchantīti pañca buddhīndriyāṇi / vākpāṇipādapāyūpasthān karmendriyāṇyāhuḥ karma kurvantīti karmendriyāṇi / tatra vāgvadati hastau nānāvyāpāraṃ kurutaḥ pādau gamanāgamanaṃ pāyurutsargaṃ karoti upastha ānaṃdaṃ prajotpattyā // 26 //

Those beginning with the eye and ending with the skin are called the faculties of cognition. The faculty of the skin is "that by which one touches" (sparśana); the established word sparśana expresses that, and thus it is recited here as sparśanakāni. Because they cognize—that is, comprehend—the five objects: sound, touch, form, taste, and smell, they are the five faculties of cognition. They call speech, hands, feet, the anus, and the genitals the faculties of action: they are faculties of action because they perform action. Among them, speech speaks, the two hands perform various activities, the two feet go and come, the anus performs excretion, and the genitals [provide] pleasure through the procreation of offspring. // 26