Seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting are the actions of the senses. The five senses, are connected with five objects in five ways. Know, by the inference of reason, their similitude of attributes.
दर्शनं श्रवणं घ्राणं स्पर्शनं रसनं तथा। उपपत्त्या गुणान् विद्धि पञ्च पञ्चसु पञ्चधा॥