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THIRD CHAPTER
INDRIYAS, KARMA AND LEŚYA
FIRST SECTION INDRIYAS ( Sense-Organs )
Indriyas have been studied in Indian philosophy from the points of view of etymology of the word 'Indriya’, cause of indriyas, their place, their number, their object, their shape, their mutual identicality and difference, their kinds and distinction of apprehensibility of substance-quality dravyaguņagrahitvaviveka, etc. The earliest reference to its etymology is come across in the Pāṇini Sūtra.] The same etymology of the word 'Indriya' found its way in the early Buddhist and Jaina texts like Visuddhimagga2 and Tattvärthādhigama Sūtra's Bhāşya3 respectively. Besides, it is also recorded in the Jaina āgama Bhagavati Vyākhyāprajñapti. 4
In the history of the etymology of the word 'Indriya' there are mainly two things to be noted--the one is that the Buddhist grammarian and Panini's commentator have given place to that
1. Indriyamindralingamindradsstamindrasșstamindrajustamin
dradattamiti vā-Pāņini, 5. 2. 93. 2. VM.XVI Indriyasaccaniddesa, 4, 5, 6, Vide Darśana and
Cintana, p. 134. 3. Pañcendriyāni bhavanti; ārambho niyamārthaḥ saņādipra
tişedhārthaśca; indriyamindralingamindradsstamindrajustamindradattamiti vā (Pā. A. 2, Pā. 5, sū 93); indro jívaḥ sarvadravyesvaiśvaryayogāt viņayeșu vā paramaiśvaryayogāt, tasya lingamindriyam, linganāt sūcanāt pradarśanādupastambhanād—vyañjanācca jīvasya lingamindriyam
TS. Bhā., II. 15, p. 162. 4. Bhs., 1. 7. 61, 7.
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