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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. SASADHARA 34 According to D. C. Bhattacharya, Sasadhara belonged to Mithila. 1
But Prof. B. K. Matilal thinks Sasadhara belonged to Western India
and he also thinks that Sasadhara preceded Gangesa (ca. AD 1325)
by almost 150 years or more than 100 years, and the Nyaya-
2 Sasadhara's
siddhantadipa was written not
was written not
later than AD 1200.
one example of usage of pak峁t膩 is:
Delimitor of subjectness can be the state of being
a word
3 .
This usage is clearly in the style of Navyanyaya. Moreover, we
can
see his Navyanyaya style of pak峁ta in lingaparamarsav膩da 4
and Isvaravada 5 of Nyayasiddhantad墨pa. Siv膩ditya
defined paksatva, but Sasadhara's usage of pak峁t膩 is a more
developed style. Udayana was the founder of Navyanyaya and
Sasadhara established it, 6 but with regard to paksata, Sivaditya
was the founder and Gangesa established to define it through the
contribution of Sasadhara.
1. (Bhattacharya, D. C. 1958: 87-90).
2. Introduction of the NSD and (Matilal 1977: 103).
3.
prak峁泃avicaranukulavivadas padatvasyaiva va
paksatavacchedakatvam (NSD: 111, 9f.).
4.
5.
6.
Vide (NSD: 60-64).
Vide (NSD: 108-112).
(Bhattacharya, D. C. 1958: 1).
