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13.5Krishna
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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
अव्यक्तम् · avyaktam
the unmanifest
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.

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