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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Yajapati states the process of inferential cognition as follows:10 45 First, where probans-ness,
a pervasion etc. exist in an
inferential cogniton, there is a
there is a
remembrance which is of a
multi-content form. After that moment, a desire to infer
arises. After that moment, mind (manasa) accompanied with
remembrance of pervasion etc. which is a destroyed
condition, i. e. a confirmatory cognition arises. And after
that moment, an inferential cognition arises. And at that
time, it is easy for desire to infer to arise. But after
some confirmatory cognition of a form which is a remembrance
etc., when a desire to infer arises, at that time, an
inferential cognition arises from a confirmatory cognition
which is to be destroyed condition. At that time, because
10. yad va prathamam tatranumit 墨stasadhanataya岣�
prak峁泃avyaptyades ca samubalambanarupam ekam eva smaranam,
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taduttaraksane
'numitsa, taduttaraksane
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vinasyadavasthavyap tyadismaranasacivyan manasah paramar
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taduttaraksane canumitir ity ato 'pi tada tatra sa sulabbeti.
yada tu kathamcit smaranadirupaparamarsanantaram anumitsotpadyate
tato vinasyadavasthaparamarsad anumitis, tada vinasyadavasthaya岣�
