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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D. NAVYANYAYA HISTORY OF PAKSAT膧 25 1. UDAYANA ACARYA
2 Udayana (ca. AD 1025-1100) 1 was turning point in the history of
Indian philosophy. He belonged to Mithila. Prac墨nanyaya ended
with him. At the same time, Navyanyaya started with him. And
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isesika
school had also developed during his time. This
means that he belonged to both old and new Nyaya. He was involved
in proving the existence of God in his 膧tmatattvaviveka, Nyaya-
kusuma帽jali, and Kiranaval墨. Many Navyanaiyayikas wrote
commentaries
these three works. In order to prove the
existence of God, Udayana used abstractions and he excluded
logical ambiguity. This new method is called the Navyanyaya
method, but it was not as developed a style as
style as
that of Navya-
naiy膩yika, Sasadhara or Manikantha, who came later. Thus D. C.
Bhattacharya stated, we can refer to Udayana as
to Udayana as
a classical
3 Navyanaiyayika. The period of the classical Navyanyaya authors
extended from Udayana, i. e. Udayana, V膩di V膩 gisvara (ca. AD
1140), 艢r墨har峁 (ca. AD 1125-50), Varadaraja (ca. AD 1150),
Vallabha (ca. AD 1150), Kesava Misra (ca. AD 1150), and Sivaditya
(ca. AD 1150).
Cf. (Bhattacharya, D. C. 1958: 51ff.), (Chemparathy 1972:
19ff.), and (Matilal 1977: 71) .
2.
(Bhattacharya, D. C. 1958: 1f.).
3. Ibid. 42.
