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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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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Jayadeva's definition of pak峁ta is as follows: The absence of objectness, in the probandum, of the inferential cognition collocated with the absence of the objectness of the desire to establish of its own is 9 subjectness.
49 Jayadeva says that a cognition of probandum (siddhi) and a desire
to establish (sisadhayisa) must have same locus. And Rucidatta
mentions this definition in his Prakasa. 10
9. sviyasi峁dhayisavisayatvabhavasam膩n膩dhikara峁嘺siddhi-
visayatvabhava岣� sadhye paksata. (TCA: 184, 2f.) and (TCP (2):
348).
10. Id.
