History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c23.s1.75
History and Doctrines of the Ājīvikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c23.s1.75
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*Indriya*. Of these there are 2,000. Buddhaghosa gives no elucidation of the word, which Rhys Davids translates “ faculties ”.¹ The 2,000 must include not only the human senses, but many supernatural ones, of which the transmigrating soul was thought to make use in the course of its long pilgrimage.