Essay name: The Navya-Nyaya theory of Paksata (Study)
Author:
Kazuhiko Yamamoto
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
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 鈥減aksa鈥� originally meant a subject or proposition but evolved to signify a key logical term, representing the subject of an inference or the locus of inference.
Section 1 - History and Development of the Concept of Paksata
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Sridhara (AD 991) preceded Udayana and belonged to Bengal.
He thought of subject as:
The paksa on the other hand, is that in where the arguer
wishes to establish the existence of the property to be
15 proved. (Trans. is of (Jha, G. 1915: 422)).
艢r墨dhara held Vyomasiva's definition of paksa. He also held the
desire theory of subject (icchapaksa).
14 14.
(Bhattacharya, D. C. 1958: 8-11).
15. paksas tu sa bhavati yatra vadina sadhyo dharmah
pratipadayitum isyate. (NK: 478).
