In the supplied attestations (all from the mūla of Bhagavad Gītā, chapter 2) indriya denotes the senses (used overwhelmingly in the plural, indriyāṇi). The term functions chiefly within a discourse on mental discipline: the senses are presented as forces that engage external objects (indriyārtha, viṣaya) and that, if uncontrolled, forcibly carry away the mind and disperse steady insight (prajñā), whereas their withdrawal, restraint, and bringing-under-control is the mark of one whose insight is established (prajñā pratiṣṭhitā). One attestation (2.8) uses the genitive in a different register — grief that dries up the senses. No commentary loci (Gauḍapāda or Śaṅkara) are supplied, so no commentarial positions can be attributed.
Senses
The reading surface. A later ingestion attaches a locus to a settled sense, or proposes a new one (dashed) for human triage — it never rewrites settled prose.
1 · The senses (plural, indriyāṇi) as faculties susceptible to being afflicted — here said to …settledadded v1
The senses (plural, indriyāṇi) as faculties susceptible to being afflicted — here said to be dried up (ucchoṣaṇa) by grief.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.8
2 · The senses as faculties that engage sense-objects (indriyārtha / viṣaya), to be withdrawn …settledadded v1
The senses as faculties that engage sense-objects (indriyārtha / viṣaya), to be withdrawn from those objects — likened to a tortoise drawing in its limbs.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.58bhagavadgita:2.68
3 · The senses as turbulent (pramāthin) agents that, even for a striving discerning person, fo…settledadded v1
The senses as turbulent (pramāthin) agents that, even for a striving discerning person, forcibly carry off the mind (manas).
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.60
4 · The senses as objects of restraint and control — when they are under one's control (vaśe),…settledadded v1
The senses as objects of restraint and control — when they are under one's control (vaśe), insight is established.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.61
5 · The senses through which one engages objects when they are brought under the self's contro…settledadded v1
The senses through which one engages objects when they are brought under the self's control (ātma-vaśya), free of attraction and aversion.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.64
6 · The senses as faculties that roam or wander (caratām) among objects; the mind following th…settledadded v1
The senses as faculties that roam or wander (caratām) among objects; the mind following them robs one of insight, as wind drives a boat on water.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:2.67
Attestation concordance — tier 2, every locus
Append-only. Grows by locus as texts arrive; stays one collapsed table so the senses remain the reading surface.
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Locus
Witness
Tradition
Stratum
Snippet
bhagavadgita:2.8
Bhagavad Gītā (mūla)
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
mula
na hi prapaśyāmi mamāpanudyād yac chokam ucchoṣaṇam indriyāṇām | avāpya bhūmāv asapatnam ṛddhaṃ rājyaṃ surāṇām api cādhipatyam ||8||
v1Bhagavad Gītā mūla (ch. 1) — +7 loci 6 sense(s) drafted from 7 Gītā locus/loci.
Caveats
The corpus is single-tradition and narrow: all seven attestations come from the mūla of Bhagavad Gītā chapter 2 only. No senses from other strata or texts can be drawn.
No commentary loci (Gauḍapāda or Śaṅkara) were supplied, so no commentarial positions are attributed.
All attestations use the plural (indriyāṇi/indriyaiḥ); no singular usage is evidenced here, so any singular sense is not attested.
The senses are derived from contextual usage within a discipline-of-the-mind discourse; a technical enumeration of which faculties count as indriya is not given in these loci.