indriya

Indriya (literally "belonging to or agreeable to Indra") is the Sanskrit and Pali term for physical strength or ability in general, and for and specifically refers to the five spiritual faculties, the five or six sensory faculties, and the twenty-two phenomenological faculties.

==Etymology== Indriya, literally "belonging to or agreeable to Indra," chief deity in the Rig Veda and lord of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven (also known as Śakra or Sakka in Buddhism), hence connoting supremacy, dominance and control, attested in the general meaning of "power, strength" from the Rig Veda.