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वि॒ष्ट॒म्भो दि॒वो ध॒रुणः॑ पृथि॒व्या विश्वा॑ उ॒त क्षि॒तयो॒ हस्ते॑ अस्य
अस॑त्त॒ उत्सो॑ गृण॒ते नि॒युत्वा॒न्मध्वो॑ अं॒शुः प॑वत इन्द्रि॒याय॑
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viṣṭambhó divó dharúṇaḥ pr̥thivyā́ḥ
víśvā utá kṣitáyo háste asya
ásat ta útso gr̥ṇaté niyútvān
mádhvo aṃśúḥ pavata indriyā́ya
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viṣṭambhaḥfrom viṣṭambhá-
from dyú- ~ div-
from dharúṇa-
from pr̥thivī́-
from víśva-
from utá
from kṣití-
from hásta-
from √as- 1
from mádhu-
from aṃśú-
from √pū-
from indriyá-
9.89.6
He is the buttress of the heavens, supporter of earth, and in his hand are all the people. Be the team's Lord a well to thee the singer: cleansed is the sweet plant's stalk for deed of glory.
| Source index | Surface | Lemma | Information |
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| 9.89.6 | viṣṭambháḥ | viṣṭambhá- viṣṭambha : vi-ṣṭambhá m. fixing, planting firmly (pada-v°), [Kir.] viṣṭambha : prop, support, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; [Śaṃk.] viṣṭambha : ‘supporters’, N. of partic. syllables inserted in sacred texts, [PañcavBr.] viṣṭambha : checking, stopping, restraint, impediment, suppression, [Kām.]; [BhP.] viṣṭambha : endurance, resistance, [MBh.] viṣṭambha : obstruction of the urine or feces, ischury, constipation, [Suśr.] viṣṭambha : a partic. disease of the fetus, [ŚārṅgS.] viṣṭambha : paralysis, loss of motion, [W.] 🔎 viṣṭambhá- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 9.89.6 | diváḥ | dyú- ~ div- dyu : cl. 2. P. dyauti ([Dhātup. xxiv, 31]; pf. dudyāva, 3. pl. dudyuvur) to go against, attack, assail, [Bhaṭṭ.] dyu : dyú for 3. div as inflected stem and in comp. before consonants. 🔎 dyú- ~ div- | nominal stemSGMGEN |
| 9.89.6 | dharúṇaḥ | dharúṇa- dharuṇa : dharúṇa mf(I)n. bearing, holding, supporter, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.] dharuṇa : dharúṇa m. N. of the supposed author of [RV. v, 15] dharuṇa : of Brahmā, [L.] dharuṇa : heaven, [L.] dharuṇa : dharúṇa m. (also n.) water, [L.] dharuṇa : dharúṇa m. opinion, [L.] dharuṇa : dharúṇa n. basis, foundation, firm ground (also pl.) dharuṇa : the firm soil of the earth dharuṇa : prop, stay, receptacle, [RV.]; [AV.] dharuṇa : dharúṇa m. (√ dhe?) a sucking calf, [VS. viii, 51] (cf. dhāru). 🔎 dharúṇa- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 9.89.6 | pr̥thivyā́ḥ | pr̥thivī́- pṛthivī : pṛthivī́ f. (= pṛthvī f. of pṛthu) the earth or wide world (‘the broad and extended One’, personified as devī and often invoked together with the sky [cf. 3. div and dyāvā-pṛthivī, [RTL. 182]]; according to [VP.] daughter of pṛthu; the Veda makes 3 earths, one called bhūmi, inhabited by men, and 2 under it; there is also an earth between the world of men and the circumambient ocean [[ŚBr.]] and one extending through the 3 worlds [[Naigh.]]), [RV.] &c. &c. pṛthivī : land, ground, soil, [ib.] pṛthivī : earth regarded as one of the elements, [Prab.]; [Suśr.] pṛthivī : = antarikṣa, [Naigh. i, 3] 🔎 pr̥thivī́- | nominal stemSGFGEN |
| 9.89.6 | víśvāḥ | víśva- viśva : víśva mf(A)n. (prob. fr. √ 1. viś, to pervade, cf. [Uṇ. i, 151]; declined as a pron. like sarva, by which it is superseded in the Brāhmaṇas and later language) all, every, every one viśva : whole, entire, universal, [RV.] &c. &c. viśva : all-pervading or all-containing, omnipresent (applied to Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, the soul, intellect &c.), [Up.]; [MBh.] &c. viśva : víśva m. (in phil.) the intellectual faculty or (accord. to some) the faculty which perceives individuality or the individual underlying the gross body (sthūla-śarīra-vyaṣṭy-upahita), [Vedāntas.] viśva : N. of a class of gods, cf. below viśva : N. of the number ‘thirteen’, [Gol.] viśva : of a class of deceased ancestors, [MārkP.] viśva : of a king, [MBh.] viśva : of a well-known dictionary = viśva-prakāśa viśva : pl. (víśve, with or scil. devā́s cf. viśve-deva, p. 995) ‘all the gods collectively’ or the ‘All-gods’ (a partic. class of gods, forming one of the 9 Gaṇas enumerated under gaṇadevatā, q.v.; accord. to the Viṣṇu and other Purāṇas they were sons of Viśvā, daughter of Dakṣa, and their names are as follow, 1. Vasu, 2. Satya, 3. Kratu, 4. Dakṣa, 5. Kāla, 6. Kāma, 7. Dhṛti, 8. Kuru, 9. Purū-ravas, 10. Mādravas [?]; two others are added by some, viz. 11. Rocaka or Locana, 12. Dhvani [or Dhūri; or this may make 13] : they are particularly worshipped at Śrāddhas and at the Vaiśvadeva ceremony [[RTL. 416]]; moreover accord. to Manu [[iii, 90], [121]], offerings should be made to them daily — these privileges having been bestowed on them by Brahmā and the Pitṛs, as a reward for severe austerities they had performed on the Himālaya: sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the expression viśve devāḥ refers to all the gods or to the particular troop of deities described above), [RV.] &c. &c.; viśva : víśva n. the whole world, universe, [AV.] &c. &c. viśva : dry ginger, [Suśr.] viśva : myrrh, [L.] viśva : a mystical N. of the sound o, [Up.] 🔎 víśva- | nominal stemPLFNOM |
| 9.89.6 | utá uta : mfn. (fr. √ ve, q.v.), sewn, woven. uta : utá ind. and, also, even, or, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c. uta : often used for the sake of emphasis, especially at the end of a line after iti or a verb (e.g. sarva-bhūtāni tam pārtha sadā paribhavanty uta, all creatures, O king, certainly always despise him, [MBh. iii, 1026]), [MBh.]; [Bhag.] &c. (As an interrogative particle, generally at the beginning of the second or following part of a double interrogation) or, utrum-an (e.g. katham nirṇīyate kiṃ syān niṣkāraṇo bandhur uta viśvāsa-ghātakaḥ, how can it be decided whether he be a friend without a motive or a violator of confidence? [Hit.]), [Kum.]; [Kathās.]; [Bhartṛ.]; [Sāh.] &c. uta : in this sense it may be strengthened by āho (e.g. kaccit tvam asi mānuṣī utāho surāṅganā, art thou a mortal woman or divine? Nala), or by āho-svit (e.g. śālihotraḥ kiṃ nu syād utāhosvid rājā nalaḥ, can it be Śālihotra or king Nala?) Rarely kim is repeated before used in this sense (e.g. kim nu svargāt prāptā tasyā rūpeṇa kimutānyāgatā, has she arrived from heaven or has another come in her form? [Mṛcch.]), [Amar.]; [MBh.] &c. (As a particle of wishing, especially at the beginning of a sentence followed by a potential) would that! utinam! (e.g. utādhīyīta, would that he would read!) ( preceded by kim) on the contrary, how much more, how much less (e.g. samartho 'si sahasram api jetuṃ kimutaikam, thou art able to conquer even a thousand, how much more one, [R.]), [Śak.]; [Vikr.]; [Ragh.] &c. ( preceded by prati) on the contrary, rather (e.g. eṣa pṛṣṭo 'smābhir na jalpati hanti praty-uta pāṣāṇaiḥ, this one questioned by us does not speak, but rather throws stones at us), [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] &c. uta : uta vā, or else, and (e.g. samudrād uta vā purīṣāt, from the sea or from the moisture in the air) uta : vā — uta vā or utāho vāpi — vā, either — or uta : — , both — and (e.g. uta balavān utābalaḥ, both the strong and the weak) uta : kim — uta vā, whether — or else. uta : mfn. woven &c. See 1. , p. 175, col. 2. 🔎 utá | utá uta : mfn. (fr. √ ve, q.v.), sewn, woven. uta : utá ind. and, also, even, or, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.] &c. uta : often used for the sake of emphasis, especially at the end of a line after iti or a verb (e.g. sarva-bhūtāni tam pārtha sadā paribhavanty uta, all creatures, O king, certainly always despise him, [MBh. iii, 1026]), [MBh.]; [Bhag.] &c. (As an interrogative particle, generally at the beginning of the second or following part of a double interrogation) or, utrum-an (e.g. katham nirṇīyate kiṃ syān niṣkāraṇo bandhur uta viśvāsa-ghātakaḥ, how can it be decided whether he be a friend without a motive or a violator of confidence? [Hit.]), [Kum.]; [Kathās.]; [Bhartṛ.]; [Sāh.] &c. uta : in this sense it may be strengthened by āho (e.g. kaccit tvam asi mānuṣī utāho surāṅganā, art thou a mortal woman or divine? Nala), or by āho-svit (e.g. śālihotraḥ kiṃ nu syād utāhosvid rājā nalaḥ, can it be Śālihotra or king Nala?) Rarely kim is repeated before used in this sense (e.g. kim nu svargāt prāptā tasyā rūpeṇa kimutānyāgatā, has she arrived from heaven or has another come in her form? [Mṛcch.]), [Amar.]; [MBh.] &c. (As a particle of wishing, especially at the beginning of a sentence followed by a potential) would that! utinam! (e.g. utādhīyīta, would that he would read!) ( preceded by kim) on the contrary, how much more, how much less (e.g. samartho 'si sahasram api jetuṃ kimutaikam, thou art able to conquer even a thousand, how much more one, [R.]), [Śak.]; [Vikr.]; [Ragh.] &c. ( preceded by prati) on the contrary, rather (e.g. eṣa pṛṣṭo 'smābhir na jalpati hanti praty-uta pāṣāṇaiḥ, this one questioned by us does not speak, but rather throws stones at us), [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] &c. uta : uta vā, or else, and (e.g. samudrād uta vā purīṣāt, from the sea or from the moisture in the air) uta : vā — uta vā or utāho vāpi — vā, either — or uta : — , both — and (e.g. uta balavān utābalaḥ, both the strong and the weak) uta : kim — uta vā, whether — or else. uta : mfn. woven &c. See 1. , p. 175, col. 2. 🔎 utá | invariable |
| 9.89.6 | kṣitáyaḥ | kṣití- kṣiti : f. dominion (Comm.), [MBh. xiii, 76, 10.] kṣiti : kṣití is, f. an abode, dwelling, habitation, house (cf. also uru- and su-kṣití, dhruvá.), [RV.] kṣiti : ([Naigh. i, 1]) the earth, soil of the earth, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. kṣiti : the number ‘one’, [Bījag.] kṣiti : (áyas), settlements, colonies, races of men, nations (of which five are named; cf. kṛṣṭí), [RV.] kṣiti : (said of the families of the gods), [iii, 20, 4] kṣiti : estates, [Rājat. v, 109] (cf. uru- and su-kṣití, dhārayát-, dhruvá-, bhava-, raṇa-, samara-.) kṣiti : kṣíti f. wane, perishing, ruin, destruction, [AV.] kṣiti : the period of the destruction of the universe, end of the world, [L.] (cf. á-, ásura-.) kṣiti : 1. 2. kṣití, 3. kṣíti, see √ 1. 2. & 4. kṣi. kṣiti : m. N. of a man, [Pravar.] kṣiti : f. a sort of yellow pigment, [L.] kṣiti : a sort of base metal kṣiti : = kṣiti-kṣama (s.v. 2. kṣití), [Gal.] 🔎 kṣití- | nominal stemPLFNOM |
| 9.89.6 | háste | hásta- hasta : hásta m. (ifc. f(A). , of unknown derivation) the hand (ifc. = ‘holding in or by the hand’; haste √ kṛ [as two words], ‘to take into the hand’, ‘get possession of’; haste-√ kṛ [as a comp.], ‘to take by the hand, marry’; śatru-hastaṃ √ gam, ‘to fall into the hand of the enemy’), [RV.] &c. &c. hasta : an elephant's trunk (ifc. = ‘holding with the trunk’), [AitBr.]; [MBh.] &c. hasta : the fore-arm (a measure of length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, = 24 Aṅgulas or about 18 inches), [VarBṛS.]; [Rājat.] &c. hasta : the position of the hand (= hasta-vinyāsa), [VPrāt.] hasta : hand-writing, [Yājñ.]; [Vikr.] hasta : the 11th (13th) lunar asterism (represented by a hand and containing five stars, identified by some with part of the constellation Corvus), [AV.] &c. &c. hasta : a species of tree, [L.] hasta : (in prosody) an anapest, [Col.] hasta : quantity, abundance, mass (ifc. after words signifying ‘hair’; cf. keśa-h°) hasta : N. of a guardian of the Soma, [Sāy.] hasta : of a son of Vasudeva, [BhP.] hasta : of another man, [Rājat.] hasta : hásta (am), n. a pair of leather bellows, [L.] hasta : hásta mfn. born under the Nakṣatra Hasta, [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 34] [cf., accord. to some Gk. ἀγοστός] 🔎 hásta- | nominal stemSGMLOC |
| 9.89.6 | asya | ayám | pronounSGMGEN |
| 9.89.6 | ásat asat : á-sat mf(a/-satI)n. [in [RV.] seven times ásat and five times ā́sat with lengthening of the accentuated vowel] not being, not existing, unreal, [RV. vii, 134, 8]; [AV.]; [Up.]; [Kum. iv, 12] asat : untrue, wrong, [RV.] asat : bad, [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c. asat : á-sat (n), m. Indra, [L.] asat : á-sat (t), n. non-existence, nonentity, [RV.]; [AV.] &c. asat : untruth, falsehood, [RV. vii, 104, 8] asat : evil, [Ragh. i, 10] asat : á-sat (ntas), m. pl. bad or contemptible men, [MBh.] &c. 🔎 ásat | √as- 1 as : cl. 2. P. ásti (2. sg. ási, 1. sg. ásmi; pl. smási or smás, sthá, sánti; (rarely Ā., e.g. 1. pl. smahe, [MBh. xiii, 13]); Subj. ásat; Imper. astu, 2. sg. edhi (fr. as-dhi cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119]); Pot. syā́t; impf. ā́sīt, rarely ās [only in [RV. x]; cf. [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 97]] ; perf. 1. and 3. sg., ā́sa, 2. sg. ā́sitha, 3. pl. āsúḥ; p. m. sát f. satī́) to be, live, exist, be present; to take place, happen; to abide, dwell, stay; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to fall to the share of, happen to any one (gen.); to be equal to (dat.), [ŚBr. xiv]; [Mn. xi, 85]; to turn out, tend towards any result, prove (with dat.); to become, [BṛĀrUp.] &c., (cf. [Pāṇ. v, 4, 51]-[55]); to be (i.e. used as copula, but not only with adj., but also with adv. [e.g. tūṣṇīm āsīt, [MBh. iii, 4041]], and often with part., [e.g. perf. Pass. p. prasthitāḥ sma, [N.]; fut. p.p. hantavyo 'smi, [N.]; fut. p. especially with Pot., and only in [ŚBr.], as yádi dāsyán-t-syā́t, ‘if he should intend to give’]; the pf. āsa helps to form the periphrastic perf., and asmi &c. the fut.); as : [cf. Gk. ἐσ-τί; Lat. es-t; Goth. is-t; Lith. es-ti.] as : cl. 4. P. ásyati (p. ásyat; impf. ā́syat, [AV.] [cf. parās and vy-as]; fut. p. asiṣyát; aor. āsthat [[Nir. ii, 2]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 17]; cf. vy-as]; perf. P. āsa [cf. parās] Ā. āse [cf. vy-as]; Ved. Inf. ástave, [VS.]) to throw, cast, shoot at (loc. dat., or gen.), [RV.] &c.; to drive or frighten away, [Nalod. iv, 36]; See also 1. astá s.v. as : asati, °te = √ aṣ, q.v. 🔎 √as- 1 | rootSGPRSACT3SBJV |
| 9.89.6 | te | tvám | pronounSGGEN |
| 9.89.6 | útsaḥ | útsa- utsa : útsa m. (√ ud, [Uṇ. iii, 68]), a spring, fountain (metaphorically applied to the clouds), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]; [Suśr.]; [Daś.] 🔎 útsa- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 9.89.6 | gr̥ṇaté | √gr̥̄- 1 | rootSGMDATPRSACTnon-finite:PTCP |
| 9.89.6 | niyútvān | niyútvant- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 9.89.6 | mádhvaḥ | mádhu- madhu : mádhu mf(U or u or vI)n. (gen. n. Ved. mádhvas, mádhos, or mádhunas; instr. mádhvā; dat. mádhune; loc. mádhau) sweet, delicious, pleasant, charming, delightful, [RV.]; [TS.] madhu : bitter or pungent, [L.] madhu : mádhu m. N. of the first month of the year (= Caitra, March-April), [ŚBr.] &c. &c. madhu : the season of spring, [Var.]; [Kālid.] madhu : Bassia Latifolia, [L.] madhu : Jonesia Asoka, [L.] madhu : liquorice, [L.] madhu : N. of Śiva, [MBh.] madhu : of two Asuras (the one killed by Viṣṇu, the other by Śatru-ghna), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.] madhu : of one of the 7 sages under Manu Cākṣuṣa, [MārkP.] madhu : of a son of the third Manu, [Hariv.] madhu : of various princes (of a son of Vṛṣa, of Deva-kṣatra, of Bindu-mat, of Arjuna Kārtavīrya), [Hariv.]; [Pur.] madhu : of a son of Bhaṭṭa-nārāyaṇa, [Kṣitīś.]; of a teacher (= madhva or ananda-tīrtha), [Col.] madhu : of a mountain, [MārkP.] madhu : (pl.) the race of Madhu (= the Yādavas or Māthuras), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [BhP.] madhu : mádhu (u) f. a partic. plant (= jīvā or jīvantī), [L.] madhu : mádhu n. anything sweet (esp. if liquid), mead &c., [RV.]; [AV.]; [TBr.] madhu : Soma (also somyam madhu), [RV.] madhu : honey (said to possess intoxicating qualities and to be of 8 kinds; madhuno leha m. licker of honey a bee, [W.]), [RV.] &c. &c. madhu : milk or anything produced from milk (as butter, ghee &c.), [RV.]; [VS.]; [GṛŚrS.] madhu : the juice or nectar of flowers, any sweet intoxicating drink, wine or spirituous liquor, [Kāv.]; [Var.]; [Sāh.] madhu : sugar, [L.] madhu : water, [L.] madhu : pyrites, [Bhpr.] madhu : N. of a Brāhmaṇa, [ŚBr.]; a kind of metre, [Col.] madhu : [cf. Gk., μέθυ, μέθη, Slav. medǔ; Lith. midùs, medùs; Germ. Meth; Eng. mead.] 🔎 mádhu- | nominal stemSGNGEN |
| 9.89.6 | aṃśúḥ | aṃśú- aṃśu : aṃśú m. a filament (especially of the Soma plant) aṃśu : a kind of Soma libation, [ŚBr.] aṃśu : thread aṃśu : end of a thread, a minute particle aṃśu : a point, end aṃśu : a ray, sunbeam aṃśu : cloth, [L.] aṃśu : N. of a Ṛṣi, [RV. viii, 5, 26] aṃśu : of an ancient Vedic teacher, son of a Dhanaṃjaya, [VBr.] aṃśu : of a prince. 🔎 aṃśú- | nominal stemSGMNOM |
| 9.89.6 | pavate | √pū- pū : cl. 9. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxxi, 12]) punā́ti, punīté (3. pl. Ā. punáte, [AV.], punaté, [RV.]; 2. sg. Impv. P. punīhi, [RV.] &c., punāhí, [SV.]); cl. 1. Ā. ([xxii, 70]) pávate (of P. only Impv. -pava, [RV. ix, 19, 3], and p. gen. pl. pavatām, [Bhag. x, 31]; p. Ā. punāná below, pávamāna See p. 610, col. 3; 1. sg. Ā. punīṣe, [RV. vii, 85, 1]; pf. pupuvuḥ, °ve, [Br.]; apupot, [RV. iii, 26, 8]; aor. apāviṣuḥ Subj. apaviṣṭa, [RV.]; fut. paviṣyati, pavitā Gr.; ind.p. pūtvā́, [AV.]; pūtvī́, [RV.]; pavitvā Gr.; -pū́ya and -pāvam, [Br.] &c.; inf. pavitum, [Br.]), to make clean or clear or pure or bright, cleanse, purify, purge, clarify, illustrate, illume (with sáktum, ‘to cleanse from chaff, winnow’; with krátum or manīṣā́m, ‘to enlighten the understanding’; with hiraṇyam, ‘to wash gold’), [RV.] &c. &c.; (met.) to sift, discriminate, discern; to think of or out, invent, compose (as a hymn), [RV.]; [AV.]; (Ā. pávate) to purify one's self, be or become clear or bright; (esp.) to flow off clearly (said of the Soma), [RV.]; to expiate, atone for, [ib.] [vii, 28, 4]; to pass so as to purify; to purify in passing or pervading, ventilate, [RV.] &c. (cf. √ pav) : Pass. pūyáte, to be cleaned or washed or purified; to be freed or delivered from (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.: Caus. paváyati or pāvayati (ep. also °te; aor. apīpavat Gr.; Pass. pāvyate, [Kāv.]), to cleanse, purify, [TS.]; [Br.]; &c. : Desid., pupūṣati, pipaviṣate Gr.: Desid. of Caus. pipāvayiṣati Gr. pū : [cf. Gk. πῦρ; Umbr. pir; Germ. Feuer; Eng. fire.] pū : mfn. cleansing, purifying (ifc.; cf. anna-, uda-, ghṛta- &c.) pū : mfn. (√ 1. pā) drinking (see agre-pū́). 🔎 √pū- | rootSGPRSMED3IND |
| 9.89.6 | indriyā́ya | indriyá- indriya : indriyá mfn. fit for or belonging to or agreeable to Indra, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] indriya : indriyá (as), m. a companion of Indra (?), [RV. i, 107, 2]; [AV. xix, 27, 1] indriya : indriyá (am), n. power, force, the quality which belongs especially to the mighty Indra, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.] indriya : exhibition of power, powerful act, [RV.]; [VS.] indriya : bodily power, power of the senses indriya : virile power, [AV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr.] indriya : semen virile, [VS.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.] &c. indriya : faculty of sense, sense, organ of sense, [AV.]; [Suśr.]; [Mn.]; [Ragh.]; [Kir.] &c. indriya : the number five as symbolical of the five senses. (In addition to the five organs of perception, buddhīndriyāṇi or jñānendriyāṇi, i.e. eye, ear, nose, tongue, and skin, the Hindūs enumerate five organs of action, karmendriyāṇi i.e. larynx, hand, foot, anus, and parts of generation; between these ten organs and the soul or ātman stands manas or mind, considered as an eleventh organ; in the Vedānta, manas, buddhi, ahaṃkāra, and citta form the four inner or internal organs, antar-indriyāṇi, so that according to this reckoning the organs are fourteen in number, each being presided over by its own ruler or niyantṛ; thus, the eye by the Sun, the ear by the Quarters of the world, the nose by the two Aśvins, the tongue by Pracetas, the skin by the Wind, the voice by Fire, the hand by Indra, the foot by Viṣṇu, the anus by Mitra, the parts of generation by Prajāpati, manas by the Moon, buddhi by Brahman, ahaṃkāra by Śiva, citta by Viṣṇu as Acyuta; in the Nyāya philosophy each organ is connected with its own peculiar element, the nose with the Earth, the tongue with Water, the eye with Light or Fire, the skin with Air, the ear with Ether; the Jainas divide the whole creation into five sections, according to the number of organs attributed to each being.) 🔎 indriyá- | nominal stemSGNDAT |