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 his definition, doubt is not necessary. And absence of
rejective evidence (badhakapramana) is also not necessary
5 define subject. He thought that a negative combination of
desire and supportive evidence can be subjectness, i. e. a qualified
absence (visistabhava) of an absence of desire (sisadhayisa-
viraha) and a supportive evidence (s膩dhakapram膩峁嘺) is a pak峁t膩.
He favoured the desire theory of subject (icchapaksa). His
originality in defining pak峁ta, is to employ a qualified absence
the definition.
4. tatra na tavat sandigdhasadhyadharmavattvam paksatvam,
sandebo bi na visesanam. Text-2 of part two, chapter A (TC).
5. badhakapramanabhavasya vyarthatvat. Text-4b of part two,
chapter A (TC).
