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Similarly, the ninth and thirteenth dates of the bright half of the month Caitra are treated by people as the birthday of Rāmacandra and Mahāvīra respectively who were actually born thousands of years back, and treating these dates as such they organize corresponding festivals in this connection. This too is a form of popular convention.
When certain particular human groups happen to be engaged in fight among themselves then others think as if it is the respect. ve residing places of these human groups that are fighting, and so, they say 'India is fighting', 'China is fighting' etc. The intention behind such statements is immediately understood by the hearers.
Thus whatever views originate on account of the impressions left behind by the popular conventions are collected together in the first category under the title naigama naya.
Sangraha Naya
When one keeps in view the one generic feature 'existence' that is common to the numerous particular things of a physical or a conscious type—thus disregarding the other specific features that are equally present there—and treating all these things as of one form reflects 'The entire universe is of the form of existence—for there is nothing that is devoid of existence', then what we have before us is sangraha naya. Similarly, when paying no attention to the variety of types and the multiplicity of units characterizing the pieces of cloth that are present there one keeps in view just one generic feature clothness and reflects 'Just cloth is present here', then too what we have before us is sangraha naya.
In accordance with the greater or lesser extent of the concerned generic feature one can construe numberless illustrations of sangraha naya. Thus the more extensive the concerned generic feature the more extensive will be the resultant sangraha naya; similarly, the less extensive the concerned generic feature the less extensive will be the resultant sangraha naya. The idea is that whatever views operate by unifying various things on
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| SR No. | 006796 |
| Book Title | Tattvartha Sutra |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 2000 |
| Total Pages | 596 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth |
| File Size | 10 MB |