Ashvamedhika Parva 25.4
Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Ashvamedhika Parva Chapter 25 · Verse 4
Sanskrit Original
हेतूनां साधनं चैव शृणु सर्वमशेषतः घ्राणं जिह्वा च चक्षुश्च त्वक् च श्रोत्रं च पञ्चमम्। मनो बुद्धिश्च सप्तैते विज्ञेया गुणहेतवः॥ गन्धो रसच रूपं च शब्दः स्पर्शश्च पञ्चमः। मन्तव्यमथ बोद्धव्यं सप्तैते कर्महेतवः॥ घ्राता भक्षयिता द्रष्टा वक्ता श्रोता च पञ्चमः। मन्ता बोद्धा च सप्तैते विज्ञेयाः कर्तृहेतवः॥ स्वगुणं भक्षयन्त्येते गुणवन्तः शुभाशुभम्।
Hear fully of causes. The noise, the tongue, the eye, the skin, the ear for the fifth, the mind and the understanding, these seven should be understood as the causes of qualities. Smell, taste, colour, sound, touch, numbering the fifth, the objects of the mind, and the objects of the understanding, these are the seven causes of action. He who smells, he who eats, he who sees, he who speaks, he who hears, numbering the lifth, he who thinks, and he who understands, these seven should be known as the causes of action. Endued with qualitics, these enjoy their own qualities, agrecable or disagrecable.