 As with the English word ‘perception’, the Sanskrit ‘pratyakṣa’ so translated is used for both the process of sensory connection with an object perceived and as the resultant awareness. In common Sanskrit, the word ‘pratyakṣa’, etymologically “before the eyes,” means something like “experientially evident” when used as an adjective and “immediate experience” or “sense experience” as a noun. Internal perceptions as of thought and emotion, pleasure and pain, and indeed of a “self,” ātman, are considered in Nyāya to be mediated by a “mind” or, in a better translation, an “internal organ,” manas. A perception that targets a preceding perception or another cognition or mental event is given a special word, ‘anuvyayasāya’, “apperception,” literally an “after-cognition,” a type of perception that is especially important in cross-school controversy. The internal organ, manas, also serves the function of channeling information from sense organs and bringing it together in perceptual knowledge for a self. Such a mental organ is denied by Buddhist adversaries and others in other schools, and is hotly debated within Nyāya.