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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 23 (of the Paksata-prakarana on Tattvacintama-nididhiti)

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TEXT-23: yat tu sisadhayisavirahavisistasvaksanavyavahitottaraksanotpattikanumitikabhinna ya siddhih sisadhayisavirahavisistayas tasya abhavah paksata. VARIANT: 1. Gadadhari reads -svalaksana- for svaksana-.

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TRANSLATION: But (Vasudeva Sarvabhauma says that%;B) "an absence of that cognition of probandum which is qualified by the absence of a desire to establish and which is different from the inferential cognition arising in the moment immediately after its own moment qualified by an absence of a desire to establish is subjectness (paksata). ** NOTES: This idea is of Vasudeva Sarvabhauma, i. e. Jagadisa and Gadadhara state that; sarvabhaumoktaprakaram upanyasyati yat tv iti (Paksata-prakarana: 133, 18), and sarvabhaumasya matam aha yat tv iti. (Gadadhari: 1131, 20 f.) respectively. The definition of paksata by Vasudeva Sarvabhauma is as follows: sisadhayisavirahanisthasvadhikaranaksavyavahitottaraksanavartiprakrtanumitikasamanavisayaprakarakasamanasiddhitvabhavavatsamanavisayaprakarakasiddhir eva sisadhayisavirahavisistayas tasyabhavasya vivaksitatvat. (Bhattacharya, G. 1978: 82). 99 Raghunatha discusses about two qualifiers i. e. qualified by an absence of a desire to establish" (sisadhayisavirahavisista) of Vasudeva's definition from the following texts, text-24 a to text-24 e. And he also discusses about "the absence of the cognition of probandum is the subjectness" (tasya abhavah paksata) which is stated by Vasudeva from text-25 a to text-25 d. With regard to Vasudeva's idea of paksta, vide part I, chapter D, section 13 (Vasudeva Sarvabhauma).

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