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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of the presence of the earlier state of "likely to be
destroyed", there arises another inferential cognition,
from the confirmatory cognition of the form of that
inferential cognition, another inferential cognition arises;
this should not be case. Therefore, it is to be noted that
a word "desire to establish" stands for the desire to
establish without the association of its object.
Rucidatta quotes the long sentence of Yajnapati's Prabha exactly
in the Prakasa from paramarsotp膩d膩nantaram..
11 to
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drastavyam.
purvam sattvat tadanumityanantaram tadanumity膩tmakapar膩mars膩t
punar anumityantaram ma bhut. atah svavisayanupabita
si峁Ｄ乨hayis膩traVii sisadhayisapadena vivaksitetivili drastavyam.
(Prabha: 102, 3-11)=(TCP (2): 341, 5 to 343, 5).
Variants: (1). TCP (2) omits ekam.
(ii). TCP (2) adds eva ca-.
(iii) TCP (2) adds eva.
(iv). TCP (2) evanumitir for canumitir.
(v).
TCP (2) sa for tada.
(vi).
TCP (2) sulabhaiva for sulabheti.
(vii). Prabha and TCP (2) svavisayanupahitatra for
svavisayanupahita sisadhayisatra. Vide (Bhattacharya, K. 1989:
118).
(viii). TCP (2) -uktam iti for vivaksiteti.
11. (TCP (2): 341 and 343).
