Editing Buddhi (section)

==Etymology==
''Buddhi'' ({{langx|sa|बुद्धि}}) is derived from the Vedic Sanskrit root ''Budh'' (बुध् ), which literally means "to wake, be awake, observe, heed, attend, learn, become aware of, to know, be conscious again".<ref name="Monier-WilliamsLeumann2002p733">{{cite book|author1=Sir Monier Monier-Williams|author2=Ernst Leumann|author3=Carl Cappeller|title=A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUezTfym7CAC|year=2002|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-3105-6|page=733}}</ref> The term appears extensively in [[Rigveda]] and other Vedic literature.<ref name="Monier-WilliamsLeumann2002p733"/> ''Buddhi'' means, states [[Monier Williams]], the power to "form, retain concepts; intelligence, reason, intellect, mind", the intellectual faculty and the ability to "discern, judge, comprehend, understand" something.<ref name="Monier-WilliamsLeumann2002p733"/><ref name="Sinha2013p120">{{cite book|author=Jadunath Sinha |title=Indian Psychology Perception |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmBGAQAAQBAJ |year=2013|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-34605-7 |pages=120–121 }}</ref>

Buddhi is a feminine [[Sanskrit]] noun derived from ''*budh'', to be [[awake]], to [[understanding|understand]], to [[know]]. The same root is the basis for the more familiar masculine form ''[[Buddha]]'' and the [[abstract noun]] ''[[bodhi]]''.

Buddhi contrasts from ''manas'' (मनस्) which means "mind", and ''[[ahamkara]]'' (अहंंकाऱ) which means "ego, I-sense in egotism".<ref name=ianwhicherp18>{{cite book|author=Ian Whicher|title=The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Qo9K9hPvQgC |year=1998|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0-7914-3815-2|pages=18, 71, 77, 92–95, 219, 231}}</ref><ref name="Sinha2013p120"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Sir Monier Monier-Williams|author2=Ernst Leumann|author3=Carl Cappeller|title=A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUezTfym7CAC|year=2002|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|isbn=978-81-208-3105-6|pages=124, 783–784}}</ref>