The Navya-Nyaya theory of Paksata (Study)
by Kazuhiko Yamamoto | 1991 | 35,898 words
This essay studies the Navya-Nyaya theory of Paksata within Indian logic by exploring the Paksataprakarana on the Tattvacintamani of Gangesa Upadhyaya and the Didhiti of Raghunata Siromani. The term “paksa� originally meant a subject or proposition but evolved to signify a key logical term, representing the subject of an inference or the locus of i...
Text 7 (of the Paksata-prakarana on Tattvachintamani)
TEXT-7: yady api paksatvasya kevalanvayitvan nasya bhedakatvam, tathapi paksapadapravrttinimittam uktam. 1 VARIANTS: 1. Gadadhari adds iti cintamanau paksataprakaranam. TCP adds iti srimadgangesopadhyayaviracite tattvacintamanau anumanakhande paksataprakaranam. Tattvacintamani-rahasya adds iti srimadgangesopadhyayaviracite tattvacintamanau anumanakhyadvitiyakhande paksatasiddhantah. TRANSLATION: Although subjectness is a universally present entity (kevalanvayin), it (i. e. a subjectness) cannot be a distinguisher, still it is presented as a ground for application
Tattvacintamani - 90 (pravrttinimitta) of the term paksa. NOTES: Subjectness (paksata) is a property which can exist everywhere, for anything can be a subject. Thus, this property cannot be a distinguisher (bhedaka) for each entity. For potness is a property of pot and this potness example, potness distinguishes a pot from anything other than pot. That is why, the potness is a distinguisher of pot. But the subjectness is not such an entity since it can exist in every entity. So subjectness a universally present entity. With regard to the universally present, cf. (Guha 1968: 38 ff) and (Matilal 1985: is said 128 ff). The ground for application (pravrttinimitta) of a term is a property which delimits the application of that term. Here, the ground for application is a delimitor of state of being the meaning of that term (sakyatavacchedaka). The (sakyatavacchedaka). The term paksa means subject and thus sakyata is in the subject. Thus, subjectness will be the delimitor of the sakyata. This delimitor of sakyata is called the ground for the application of the term paksa.