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 16 (of the Paksata-prakarana on Tattvacintama-nididhiti)
TEXT-16: evam ca paksavisesyakasiddhyanantaram api sadhyavisesyikanumitir1 jayate tulyanyayat, samanakarayah siddheh pratibandhakatve paryavasanat. VARIANT: 1. Gadadhari reads -visesyaka- for -visesyika-. TRANSLATION: Thus, when after the cognition of probandum in which a subject is a qualificand there arises an inferential cognition in which a probandum appears as a qualificand, it amounts to the fact that on the basis of the same maxim, a cognition of similar form will have to be treated as the obstructing factor for a similar form of inferential cognition. NOTES: Raghunatha says that the maxim can apply to the reverse case of text-15. That is, after a cognition of probandum in the form "parvato vahniman" (paksavisesyakasiddhi), it is possible to have an inferential cognition in the form "parvate vahnih", because the form of siddhi differs from the form of anumiti. Therefore, that siddhi cannot obstruct that inferential cognition to arise. But that siddhi can operate as an obstructing factor to an inferential cognition in the form of "parvato vahniman"