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DINANATH SHARMA
SAMBODHI
purpose of it is to show that the cloth has become useless.
Likewise, when we say – Here is a Brāhmaṇa - śramana, the meaning of the sentence is suspended on the basis that a monk cannot be a Brāhmana altogether. So the other meaning replaces it, i. e. the man who presently is a monk was once a Brāhmaṇa. The purpose behind it is to say that a Brāhmana has converted to monkhood.
Really speaking, the naya theory was developed by Jainas to explain the very characteristics of the soul. They had nothing to do with rhetorism, but by default, it has correlated with laksanā, a rhetorical element of literature, which has been shown here.
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