In plain words
The basis, the agent, the various instruments, the many distinct efforts, and the divine factor as the fifth.
Word for word
The seat, likewise the agent, and the instruments of various kinds, and the manifold distinct activities, and also the divine, here the fifth.
अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम्विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम्
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The commentators
▸Bhagavadgītābhāṣyam
कानि तानीति, उच्यते —
अधिष्ठानम् इच्छाद्वेषसुखदुःखज्ञानादीनाम् अभिव्यक्तेराश्रयः अधिष्ठानं शरीरम् , तथा कर्ता उपाधिलक्षणः भोक्ता, करणं च श्रोत्रादि शब्दाद्युपलब्धये पृथग्विधं नानाप्रकारं तत् द्वादशसङ्ख्यं विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टाः वायवीयाः प्राणापानाद्याः दैवं चैव दैवमेव च अत्र एतेषु चतुर्षु पञ्चमं पञ्चानां पूरणम् आदित्यादि चक्षुराद्यनुग्राहकम् ॥ १४ ॥
In plain words
"And which are those?" — the answer comes:
'The substratum' is the support on which desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, and cognition become manifest — and that substratum is simply the body. Likewise 'the agent' is the Self as conditioned by a limiting adjunct, also called 'the experiencer'. 'The instrument' means the sense-organs, hearing and the rest, which exist to grasp sound and the other sense-objects; these instruments come in various kinds, twelve in number. And 'the various' are the distinctly-functioning vital airs — prāṇa, apāna, and the rest. And 'the divine factor' — this, among the four already named, is the fifth, completing the set of five — is the sun and the other presiding deities, the unseen power that actually enables the eye and the other senses to do their work.
Close to the Sanskrit
"Which are those?" — thus (the question); it is said (in reply) —
The substratum — the support of the manifestation of desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, cognition, and so on — the substratum is the body; likewise, the agent, characterized by a limiting adjunct, the experiencer; and the instrument — hearing and the rest, for the apprehension of sound and so on, of various kinds, of diverse types — that, numbering twelve; and the various, having distinct functions, of the nature of the vital airs, beginning with prāṇa and apāna; and the divine factor indeed, the divine factor precisely, and — here, among these four, the fifth, the completion of the five — the sun and the rest, the grace-giving power behind sight and the rest.