I shall speak in detail now of the perception of taste. High-souled Rishis have spoken of diverse kinds of taste. They are sweet, saltish, bitter, astringent, sour and pungent. These are the six kinds of taste appertaining to the water element. Light contributes to the vision of form.
Form is of diverse kinds.
Short, tall, thick, four-cornered, round, white, black, red, blue, yellow, reddish, hard, bright, smooth, oily, soft, and terrible. These are the sixteen kinds of form which constitute the property of light or vision. The property of the wind element is touch. Both sound and touch are the two properties of the wind element. These are the eleven properties that appertain to the wind.