six kinds of laukika or ordinary perceptions, viz., the visual (cākṣuṣa) auditory (śrautra), tactual (spārśana), gustatory (rāsana), olfactory (ghrāṇaja), and the internal or mental (mānasa) perception, Alaukika or extraordinary perception is of three kinds, viz., sāmānyalakṣaṇa, jñānalakṣaṇa and yogaja
