Verses on Sāṃkhya 35.3

35.3

buddhīndriyāṇi tāni saviśeṣaṃ viṣayaṃ gṛhṇāti saviśeṣaviṣayaṃ mānuṣāṇāṃ śabdasparśarūparasagandhān sukhaduḥkhamohaviṣayayuktān buddhīndriyāṇi prakāśayanti devānāṃ nirviśeṣānviṣayān prakāśayanti tathā karmendriyāṇāṃ madhye vāgbhavati śabdaviṣayā devānāṃ mānuṣāṇāṃ ca vāgvadati ślokādīnuccārayati tasmāddevānāṃ mānuṣāṇāṃ ca vāgindriyaṃ tulyaṃ śeṣāṇyapi vāgvyatiriktāni pāṇipādapāyūpasthasaṃjñitāni pañcaviṣayāṇi śabdādayo yeṣāṃ tāni pañcaviṣayāṇi śabdasparśarūparasagandhāḥ pāṇau santi pañcaśabdādilakṣaṇāyāṃ bhuvi pādo viharati pāyvindriyaṃ pañcaklṛptamutsargaṃ karoti tathopasthendriyaṃ pañcalakṣaṇaṃ śukramānandayati // 34 //

Those faculties of cognition grasp a specific object: they illuminate a specific object for human beings—sound, touch, form, taste, and smell combined with the objects of pleasure, pain, and delusion; for the gods, they illuminate unspecific objects. Likewise, among the faculties of action, speech has sound as its object: the speech of gods and of human beings speaks, uttering verses and so forth; therefore, the faculty of speech is identical for gods and human beings. "And the remaining ones also"—distinct from speech, termed hands, feet, anus, and genitals—"have five objects": those whose objects are five, namely sound and the rest. Sound, touch, form, taste, and smell are present in the hand; the foot moves upon the earth characterised by the five [qualities], sound and the rest; the faculty of the anus performs excretion constituted by the five; likewise, the faculty of the genitals takes pleasure in semen characterised by the five.