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BG 15.9

Bhagavad Gītā · Puruṣottama YogaAnuṣṭubh (śloka)

श्रोत्रं चक्षुः स्पर्शनं च रसनं घ्राणमेव च | अधिष्ठाय मनश्चायं विषयानुपसेवते ||१५-९||

śrotraṃ cakṣuḥ sparśanaṃ ca rasanaṃ ghrāṇameva ca . adhiṣṭhāya manaścāyaṃ viṣayānupasevate ||15-9||

Linguistic facts

Meter · chandasVidyut

Anuṣṭubh (śloka) · 16+16 syllables

scansion (laghu/guru)
śroGtraṃGcaGkṣuḥGspaGrśaLnaṃGcaLraLsaLnaṃGghrāGṇaLmeGvaLcaL
aLdhiGṣṭhāGyaLmaLnaGścāGyaṃGviLṣaLGnuLpaLseGvaLteG
Sandhi · pada-pāṭhaVidyut
श्रोत्रम्चक्षुस्स्पर्शनम्रसनम्घ्राणम्एवअधिष्ठायमनस्चायम्विषयान्उपसेवते
Word-by-word morphologyVidyut
13 words analyzed
  • श्रोत्रम्śrotramश्रोत्रnominal · nominative singular neuter
  • चक्षुस्cakṣusचक्षुnominal · nominative singular masculine
  • स्पर्शनम्sparśanamस्पृश्nominal · accusative singular masculine
  • canominal · vocative singular masculine
  • रसनम्rasanamरस्nominal · accusative singular masculine
  • घ्राणम्ghrāṇamघ्राnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • एवevaएवnominal · vocative singular neuter
  • canominal · vocative singular masculine
  • अधिष्ठायadhiṣṭhāyaअधिष्ठाindeclinable
  • मनस्manasमन्nominal · nominative singular masculine
  • चायम्cāyamचिnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • विषयान्viṣayānविषयnominal · accusative plural masculine
  • उपसेवतेupasevateउपसेव्verb · present third singular active (√upasev)
Recitationtool-derived · pending

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Translations

Swami SivanandaRelay

15.9 Presiding over the ear, the eye, touch, taste and smell, as well as the mind, it enjoys the objects of the senses.

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8 more attributed translations
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaRelay

The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.

Dr.S.SankaranarayanRelay

15.9. Presiding over the ear, the eye, the touch-sense the taste-sense and also the smell-sense and the mind, He enjoys the sense objects.

Shri Purohit SwamiRelay

15.9 He is the perception of the ear, the eye, the touch, the taste and the smell, yea and of the mind also; and the enjoyment the things which they perceive is also His.

Sri Abhinav GuptaRelay

15.9 See Comment under 15.11

Sri RamanujaRelay

15.9 Presiding over these sense-organs, of which the mind is the sixth, the lord of the body drives the organs towards their corresponding objects like sound and the rest and enjoys them.

Sri ShankaracharyaRelay

15.9 Seated in the body, it upasevate, enjoys; visayan, the objects-sound etc.; adhisthaya, by presiding over; srotram, the ear; caksuh, eyes; sparsanam, skin, the organ of touch; rasanam, tongue; eva ca, as also; the ghranam, nose; and manah, the mind, the sixth-(presiding over) each one of them along with its (corresponding) organ.

Swami AdidevanandaRelay

15.9 Presiding over the ear, the eye, the sense of touch, the tongue and the nose, and the mind, It experiences these objects of senses.

Swami GambiranandaRelay

15.9 This one enjoys the objects by presiding over the ear, eyes, skin and tongue as also the nose and the mind.

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