ABSTRACT
Īśvarakṛṣṇa mentions eleven kinds of anæsthesia of the sense-organs (indriya-badha) corresponding to the eleven kinds of sense-organs—five sensory organs, five motor organs, and one central sensory as distinguished from the peripheral organs. And besides these eleven kinds of sense-disorders and their effects on the intellect, he mentions seventeen other kinds of the disorders of the intellect (buddhibadha). 1 Māṭhara says that indriyabadha means the incapacity of the sense-organs for apprehending their objects; the sense-disorders cannot produce right apprehension. 2
