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Organअंग

Eyes

आंखें (नेत्र) · नेत्र

Extracted from the text4 references

Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
नेत्रनयनचक्षुअक्षिलोचनदृष्टि
Hindi
आंखेंनेत्रआंखनयनआँख
English
Eyeseyeeyesocularvisionsight
Romanized
netranayanachakshuakshiaankh

What the text says

Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.

Cautions1

  • Drishti is said to perish quickly by nature and therefore to deserve protection with great effort.

    Chapter 15 · p. 304 · v. 209Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Anatomy6

  • The face is called half of the body and its chief part, and within the face the eye is valued above the other senses; a person without eyes is likened to a tree surrounded by darkness.

    Chapter 15 · p. 285 · v. 123Hindi commentaryTraditional description
  • The five circles of the eye are pakshma (lashes), vartma (lids), shukla (white), krishna (black) and drishti (sight).

    Chapter 15 · p. 286 · v. 128Hindi commentaryTraditional description
  • Four junctions lie between the five circles, the fifth at the inner corner near the nose (kaninaka) and the sixth at the outer corner (apanga).

    Chapter 15 · p. 286 · v. 128Hindi commentaryTraditional description
  • A footnote names the four junctions: between lashes and lids, lids and white, white and black, and black and sight.

    Chapter 15 · p. 286 · v. 128FootnoteTraditional description
  • Two layers (patala) are in the eyelids and four in the eyeball.

    Chapter 15 · p. 287 · v. 129Hindi commentaryTraditional description
  • Drishti is described as the part of the eye arising in the region where the karma veiling the eye-sense is subsided and destroyed (kshayopashama), round like a lentil, suited to coolness, and the part by which forms are seen.

    Chapter 15 · p. 304 · v. 209Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 96 times on 69 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

What are the seats of eye diseases and how many of each are there?

Five circles (mandala), six junctions (sandhi) and six layers (patala).

Detailed answer and sources
How does the text describe drishti, the seeing part of the eye?

As a round, lentil-sized part suited to coolness, arising where the karma that veils the eye-sense is subsided and destroyed; it perishes quickly and must be protected with great care.

Detailed answer and sources

All references

Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.

Quick facts

Content type
Organ
Categories
Body system
Source pages with records
4
Pages naming it
69
Chapters
Chapter 15
Extraction tasks
T14, T15
Record id
organ_eyes