The means through which the body feels and perceives to include seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting.
The five senses: vision, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Touch encompasses all sensations from the body surface, joints, and viscera, including pain, thermal sensitivity, and position sense.
also i n d r i y a. The five senses or sense organs: hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell. Also, in a broader sense, the ten senses: the senses of perception or j ñ â n e n d r i y a s (ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose) and the working senses k a r m e n d r i y a s (mouth, arms, legs, genitals and anus), Sometimes the mind is added as the eleventh sense (S.B. 3.26: 13). They are part of the twenty-five elements (see also e l e m e n t s).