5. The Great Elements, Egoism, Reason, as also the Unmanifested, the ten senses and one, and the five objects of the senses ;

Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain (verses 5-6 discussed as one combined teaching in the source)

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• the (five) great elements (earth, water, fire, air, ether)
• egoism / the sense of 'I'
• intellect / discriminative faculty
• the unmanifest (root nature, prakṛti in its unevolved state)
• and indeed / as well
• the ten senses (five sensory + five motor organs)
• the one (i.e., the mind, manas)
• and
• the five (sense objects)
• and
• the objects/fields of the senses (sound, touch, form, taste, smell)