indriya
इन्द्रिय indriyaA sense faculty; the powers of perception and action that pratyahara withdraws from their objects.
Where this term appears
- Pratyahara: Withdrawing the Senses Yoga
The Sanskrit word for them, indriya , names the powers by which the mind goes out to meet its objects, the vishayas .
- The Katha Upanishad: the boy who questioned Death Treatise
…osture, nothing of breath: only stillness of the instruments, sthiram indriya-dharanam , and it is explicitly unstable: "Yoga comes and goes." The whole later architecture, through Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and b…