महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च ।इन्द्रियाणि दशैकं च पञ्च चेन्द्रियगोचराः ॥
mahā-bhūtāny ahaṅkāro buddhir avyaktam eva ca |indriyāṇi daśaikaṃ ca pañca cendriya-gocarāḥ ||
- महाभूतानि · mahā-bhūtāni
- the great elements
- अहङ्कारः · ahaṅkāraḥ
- self-sense, ego
- बुद्धिः · buddhiḥ
- understanding
- अव्यक्तम् · avyaktam
- the unmanifest
- इन्द्रियाणि दश एकम् · indriyāṇi daśa ekam
- the eleven senses (ten plus mind)
- इन्द्रियगोचराः · indriya-gocarāḥ
- objects of the senses
- पञ्च · pañca
- five
“The great elements, self-sense, understanding, and the unmanifest — the eleven senses and the five objects of sense —”
— Original plain-language translation
The field's inventory begins, drawn from Samkhya categories: gross elements, inner instruments, senses and their objects. The list completes in the next verse — twenty-four principles plus their stirrings, the full furniture of embodied life.
— Reader's notes (original)