SB 11.22.16

Srimad-Bhagavatam, Eleventh Canto, Chapter 22: Enumeration of the Elements of Material Creation

SB 11.22.15

SB 11.22.17

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 16

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.

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.