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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COLLECTIVE (SAMGRAHA) STANDPOINT (NAYA):
संग्रहो मन्यते वस्तु सामान्यात्मकमेवहि । सामान्यव्यतिरिक्तोऽस्ति न विशेषः खपुष्पवत् ॥ ६ ॥ samgraho manyate vastu sāmānyātmakam eva hi /
sāmānya-vyatirikto’sti na višeşaḥ kha-puspavat 11 6
[ samgraho collective standpoint; manyate deals with; vastu an object; sāmānyātmakam possessing the general property; eva hi only as it were; sāmānyavyatirikto apart from the general property; asti is; na not; viseșaḥ the specific property; kha-pușpavat like a sky-flower].
The collective (samgraha) deals with the general properties alone of an object, while recognizing that there exists no viseşa (specific property) apart from sāmānya (general property), i.e., both viseșa and sāmānya are co-existing and coincident. Sāmānya, devoid of viseşa, is like a khapuşpa (sky-flower), quite a nonentity, i.e., existing "nowhere”. 6.
SAMGRAHA ILLUSTRATED, OR INSTANCES OF THE COLLECTIVE STANDPOINT:
विना वनस्पति कोऽपि निम्बाम्रादिर्न दृश्यते । हस्ताद्यन्त विन्यो हि नामुलाद्यास्ततः पृथक् ॥ ७ ॥ vinā vanasptim ko’pi nimbāmrādir na drśyate 1
hastādy antar bhāvinyo hi nāngulādyās tataḥ prthak 11 7
[ vinā without; vanaspatim vegetable; ko'pi any single; nimbāmrādiḥ a nimb tree, a mango tree and others; na not; drsyate is seen,-conceived; hastādyan
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