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 18 (of the Paksata-prakarana on Tattvacintama-nididhiti)
TEXT-18: atra ca vyaptismaranadina purvanumitsanase paramarsakale ca siddhisattve 'numitsantarotpattyaivanumitis, tathaiva karanibhutasya visistabhavasya sampattir1 ity upadhyayah. VARIANT: 1. Gadadhari reads sampatter for sampattir. TRANSLATION: And here, (Yajnapati) Upadhyaya says that: "after the remembrance of pervasion etc. when the previous desire to infer is destroyed at the time of a confirmatory cognition if there is the cognition of probandum, there can arise an inferential cognition in which another desire to infer arises,
because that is how a qualified absence is obtained". NOTES: This refers to Tattvacintamaniprabha of Yajnapati Upadhyaya, i. e: tatra hi prathamam paramarsa evotpadyate tadanantaram1 svakaranad anumitsa taduttaraksana eva punah smaranalaksanah 2 paramarsas taduttaraksana eva canumitir iti 3 vinasyadavasthanumitsaprayukta paksata tatra tadanim nirvighnaiva 4. (Prabha: 101, 30 to 102, 2) = (Tattvacintamani-prakasa with Tarkacudamani: 341, 4-6). VARIANTS: (1). Tattvacintamani-prakasa with Tarkacudamani reads paramarsotpadanantaram for tatra hi prathamam paramarsaivotpadyate, tadanantaram (2). Prabha reads smaranaksanah for smaranalaksanah. (3). Prabha omits ca-. (4). Prabha reads niscitaiva for nirvighnaiva. The corrections depend on (Bhattacharya, K. 1989: 118) and (Tattvacintamani-prakasa with Tarkacudamani: 341). Rucidatta also cites this sentence exactly in the original form. Vide (Tattvacintamani-prakasa with Tarkacudamani: 341, 4-6). Yajapati's view is that an inferential cognition arises even after two or three moments of a destruction of the first desire, because another desire produces the inferential cognition. It is rare that Raghunatha states a proper name in his Didhiti. Here, Raghunatha refers to Upadhyaya and in text-53 and 54, he refers to the Prabhakaras.