Book Title: Jaina Gem Dictionary
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________________ Jaina Gem Dictionary. 93 · as in making a bangle of gold, gold is the material cause: as in love and hatred, the soul itself is the primary or material cause. (2) Fafatt (ninitta), secondary or auxiliary cause, i.e., the circumstances which produce the effect; but which do not become the effect itself. :: Note that efficient cause is nothing more nor less than the total of the primary and secondary causes, e.g., in making a jar of clay, the efficient cause is the capacity of the clay to be made into a jar; and the circumstances or means, including the potter and his processes, by which the clay is actually made into the jar. The capacity of the clay is the primary or upâdâna cause. The potter, his tools and processes, &c., are the second ary or nimitta cause. Samavasaraņa (AFCETU)-The hall of audience of the Tirthankaras. Samavâya (ahath)-(1) Group. (2) A padârtha or category of the Vaigesika. Samavâyânga (FHITAM)—The 4th Añga of the Scriptures. Samavedanî (Fracat-Narration which induces 'affection for the truth. . Samaya (ha)-Unit of time. Its measure is the time taken by an atom in going from one point of space to the next one with slow motion. An Instant.

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