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Inda 122 Indriya
Indaka [dimin. fr. inda] — I. Np. (see Diet, of names),
e.g. at Pv 11.9"; PvA 136 sq. — 2. (— °) see inda 2.
Indakhlla [inda + khlla, cp. BSk. indrakila Divy 250, 365,
544; Av. b 1.109, 223]. "lodra's post"; the post, stake
or column of Indra, at or before the city gate; also a large
slab of stone let into the ground at the entrance of a
house D It. 254 (°r| uhacca, cp. DhA 11. 181); Vin iv.160
(expld- ibid, as sayani-gharassa ummaro, i.e. threshold);
S V.444 (ayokhilo -f); Dh 95 ("upama, cp. DhA 11. 181);
Th 1, 663; J 1.89; Miln 364; Vism 72, 466; SnA 201;
DA 1.209 (nikkhamitva bahi °a); Dh.^ 11. 180 ("sadisai)
Sariputtassa cittaijj, 181 (nagara-dvare nikhatar) °i)).
Indagu see hitidagu.
Indagopaka [inda -(- gopaka, cp. Vedic indragopa having
Indra as protector] a sort of insect ("cochineal, a red
beetle", Bohtlingk), observed to come out of the ground
after rain Th I, 13 ; Vin 111.42 ; J iv.258; v. 168; DhA 1.20;
Brethren p. 18, n.
Indanila [inda -(- nila "Indra's blue"] a sapphire J 1.80;
Miln 118; VvA III (4- mahfinila).
IndavarUQI (f.) [inda + vSruna] the Coloquintida plant J
IV.8 (°ka-rukkha).
Indivara (nt.) [etym. ?] the blue water lily, Nymphaea Stellata
or Cassia Fistula J v.92 (°rsama ratti); VI. 536; Vv
45' (= uddslaka-puppha VvA 197).
Indriya (nt.) [Vedic indriya adj. only in meaning "belonging
to Indra"; nt. strength, might (cp. inda), but in specific
Pali sense "belonging to the ruler", i e. governing, ruling
nt. governing, ruling or controlling principle] A. On term:
Indfiya is one of the most comprehensive & important
categories of liuddhist psychological philosophy & ethics,
meaning "controlling principle, directive force, elan, Jyva/zi?",
in the foil, applications: (a) with reference to sense-per-
ceptibility "faculty, function", often wrongly interpreted as
"organ" ; (b) w. ref. to objective aspects of form and
matter "kind, characteristic, determinating principle, sign,
mark" (cp. woman-hood, hood = Goth, haidus "kind,
form"); (e) w. ref. to moods of sensation and (d) to moral
powers or motives controlling action, "principle, controlling"
force; (e) vv. ref. to cognition & insight "category". —
Definitions of indriya among others at DhsA 119; cp.
Expositor 157; Dhs trsl. i.vil; Cpii. 228, 229.
B. Classifications and groups of indriyani. An exhaustive
list comprises the indriyani enumd under A a— e, thus
establishing a canonical scheme of 22 Controlling Powers
(bavisati indriyani), running thus at Vbh 122 sq. (see trsl. at
Cpd. 175, 176); and discussed in detail at Vism 491 sq.
(a. sensorial) (i) cakkh-undriya ("the eye which is a
power", Cpd. 228) the eye or (personal potentiality of)
vision, (2) sot-indriya the ear or hearing, (3) ghan° nose
or smell, (4) jivh° tongue or taste, (5) kay° body-sensibiliiy,
(6) man") mind; (/'. maleri,tl) (7) itth" female
sex or femininity, (8) pufis" male sex or masculinity,
ji»it° life or vitality; (