śabdaḥ sparśo raso gandho
rÅ«paá¹ cety artha-jÄtayaḥ
gaty-ukty-utsarga-Å›ilpÄni
karmÄyatana-siddhayaḥ
Å›abdaḥ - sound; sparÅ›aḥ - touch; rasaḥ - taste; gandhaḥ - fragrance; rÅ«pam - form; ca - and; iti - thus; artha - of sense objects; jÄtayaḥ - the categories; gati - movement; ukti - speech; utsarga - excretion (by both the genitals and anus); Å›ilpÄni - and manufacture; karma-Äyatana - by the above-mentioned working senses; siddhayaḥ - accomplished.
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.
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.
