वस्तुनो मृदुकाठिन्यलघुगुर्वोष्णशीतताम् । जिघृक्षतस्त्वङ् निर्भिन्ना तस्यां रोममहीरुहा: । तत्र चान्तर्बहिर्वातस्त्वचा लब्धगुणो वृत: ॥ २३ ॥
vastuno mrdu-kathinya- laghu-gurv-osna-sitatam jighrksatas tvan nirbhinna tasyam roma-mahi-ruhah tatra cantar bahir vatas tvaca labdha-guno vrtah
- vastunah
- of all matter
- mrdu
- softness
- kathinya
- hardness
- laghu
- lightness
- guru
- heaviness
- osna
- warmness
- sitatam
- coldness
- jighrksatah
- desiring to perceive
- tvak
- the touch sensation
- nirbhinna
- distributed
- tasyam
- in the skin
- roma
- hairs on the body
- mahi-ruhah
- as well as the trees, the controlling deities
- tatra
- there
- ca
- also
- antah
- within
- bahih
- outside
- vatah tvaca
- the sense of touch or the skin
- labdha
- having been perceived
- gunah
- objects of sense perception
- vrtah
- generated
When there was a desire to perceive the physical characteristics of matter, such as softness, hardness, warmth, cold, lightness and heaviness, the background of sensation, the skin, the skin pores, the hairs on the body and their controlling deities (the trees) were generated. Within and outside the skin is a covering of air through which sense perception became prominent.