1At Sāvatthī. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus thus:

"Bhikkhus, there are these five faculties. What five? The faculty of faith, the faculty of energy, the faculty of mindfulness, the faculty of concentration, the faculty of wisdom. These are the five faculties." [n.187] As I point out in the Introduction to Part 5 (pp. 1508–9), while the other saṁyuttas of this Vagga each deal with a single closed group made up of a fixed number of items, the Indriyasaṁyutta deals with a variety of sets collected under the general rubric of indriya. The most important is the group called the five spiritual faculties, which probably formed the original core of the saṁyutta. With the expanding interest in classification, the compilers of the canon probably felt obliged to include in this saṁyutta the other sets of faculties, thus imparting to it a heterogeneous character. The complete list of twenty-two faculties is at Vibh 122, commented on at Vibh-a 125–28; see too Vism 491–93 (Ppn 16:1–12). Interestingly, this list belongs to the Abhidhamma analysis; the Indriya-vibhaṅga does not include a Suttanta analysis, which suggests that the idea of indriya as a general category belongs to the Abhidhamma proper rather than to the suttas.

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Tatra kho bhagavā etadavoca.

"Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, indriyāni. Katamāni pañca? Saddhindriyaṁ, vīriyindriyaṁ, satindriyaṁ, samādhindriyaṁ, paññindriyaṁ – imāni kho, bhikkhave, pañcindriyānī"ti.

Paṭhamaṁ.