The foremost strength?

I don't know how it is in general but Indian philosophers tend to think of their current idea as the 'foremost' idea. Or, perhaps, it is just a linguistic...umm...idiosyncracy. You know, like the 'mother of all battles' etc sort of hyperbole. So, at any point in time, one finds that the foremost virtue is the virtue under discussion only to discover that there is another 'foremost' virtue a