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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In Udayana's last work Kira峁嚹乿al墨, Udayana described pak峁 as follows: Subject is a property-possessor which is qualified by 4 desired property to be established.
26 He held Vyomasiva's definition of paksa. And he favoured the
desire theory of subject (icchapaksa). And in his Kusuma帽jali and
Kiranaval墨, he described paksa as follows:
Subject is a qualifier which is not yet established.
5 This idea is based on the old Nyaya idea. In Navyanyaya theory of
paksata, it is possible to establish again if there is a desire
to establish.
6 4.
pratipadayitum istena dharmena visisto yo dharmi paksah.
(Kir: 224).
5. aprasiddhavisesanah paksah.
paksah.
(NKus: 333 and 466) and
(Kir: 29).
6. Cf. text-6, part two, chapter A (TC).
