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Ideas of objects related as the shelter and the sheltered revive one another. (10) Anantarya. If an object regularly emerges immediately after another, their ideas would revive one another. (11) Sambandha-viseșa. Particular relationship e.g. that subsisting between a teacher and a pupil often associates the ideas of the related. (12) Viyoga. The fact of separation revives the idea of the one separated. (13) Eka-kārya. When many members combine to do one piece of act, the experience of one of the members revives the idea of the other members. (14) Virodha. When two members are opposed to one another, the idea of the one revives the idea of the other. (15) Atisaya. When one is the cause of some important change in another, the latter naturally remembers the former. (16) Prapti. When one receives or expects to get something from another, the former naturally thinks of the latter often and on. (17) Vyavadhāna. Ideas of objects related as the container and the contained e.g. sheath and sword, suggest one another. (18) and (19) Sukha and Duḥkha. Experiences of pleasure and pain suggest the objects which give them. (20) and (21) Iççhã and Dveṣa. Desire and aversion suggest the objects desired or wanted to be averted. (22) Bhaya. Fear suggests the object feared. (23) Arthitva. A needy person remembers the objects which would remove his needs. (24) Kriya. An object e.g. a car suggests the person e.g. the builder who made it. (25) Rāga. Love suggests the beloved. (26) Dharma. It is said that as an effect of a special knowledge of the Veda's and other meritorious acts, one comes to remember the events of his past life and have a special knowledge of the objects, experienced in the present life. (27) Adharma. It is said that as an effect of vicious acts, one is often haunted by ideas of things which gave him pain in the past.
The 27 causes of recollections described above are, however, illustrative and not exhaustive. As Vātsāyana
says-
'निदर्शनं चेदं स्मृतिहेतुनां न परिसंख्यानमिति । '
So, according to the philosohers of the Nyaya school, it is Manas that makes recollection possible. But simultaneous
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