इन्द्रिय

Monier-Williams · indriya
indriyá mfn. fit for or belonging to or agreeable to Indra ‖ m. a companion of Indra(?) i, 107, 2 xix, 27, 1 ‖ (am), n. power, force, the quality which belongs especially to the mighty Indra ‖ exhibition of power, powerful act ‖ bodily power, power of the senses ‖ virile power ‖ semen virile &c ‖ faculty of sense, sense, organ of sense &c ‖ the number five as symbolical of the five senses. (In addition to the five organs of perception, buddhī7ndriyāṇi or jñānêndriyāṇi, i.e. eye, ear, nose, tongue, and skin, the Hindūs enumerate five organs of action, karmêndriyāṇi i.e. lary