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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should have a desire to infer a fire. These views are discussed
by Raghunatha in more detail
Rucidatta cites many sentences from Yajnapati's Prabha and
Jayaveda's Aloka directly in his Prakasa. He has quoted exactly
without changing the original form. He cites a long passage from
7 Yajapati's Prabha. That is about a theory of another
confirmatory cognition arising and the process of inferential
cognition. And Rucidatta cites mainly five portions from
Jayadeva's 膧loka. The first is about God's desire (isvara-
si峁Ｄ乨hayisa or bhagavad-iccha). 8 The second is a criticism
against emergence of another confirmatory cognition theory by
Yajnapati. The third point states that a desire to establish
9 5.
na caivam dhumena vahnyanumitsayam alok膩din膩pi
tadanumityapattib, yanumitir yatrotpadyate tadgoracanumitsaya
vivak峁tatvat. (TCP (2): 347). And vastuto vyadhikara峁嘺ya
anyak膩l墨n膩y膩s ca tasy膩s tada tatpuruse viraha eveti t膩m
adayatiprasahgabhavat tallihgakatatpaksakatats adhyakanumitigoraca
sa vivaksaniya. (TCP (2): 350).
6. Text-26ff. of Didhiti.
7.
paramarsotpadanantaram... iti drastatyam. (TCP (2): 341, 5
to 343, 5) = prathamam paramarsa..
amarsa
... iti drastavyam. (Prabha:
101, 30 to 102, 11).
8.
(TCP (2): 338f.) = (TCA: 173).
9. (TCP (2): 344, 2-8) = (TCA: 180, 3 to 182, 3).
