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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Raghunatha developed Gahgesa's idea of subjectness. Gahgesa
thinks that the determinative factors of subject (paksa) are the
combinations between the cognition of probandum (siddhi) and the
desire to establish (sisadhayi峁). But Raghunatha thinks that
the determinative factors of subject are not the combinations
between the cognition of probandum and the desire to establish
but the combination between the obstructing factor (pratibandhaka
or virodhin) and the cause (karana or hetu) or the stimulating
factor (uttejaka) of the inferential cognition, because, in some
cases, the cognition of probandum cannot obstruct the emergence
of inferential cognition and the desire to establish can obstruct
the emrgence of inferential cognition. That is Raghunatha's
original idea of subjectness (paksata).
5 There is a strange point in the paksataprakara峁嘺. That is,
Raghunatha did not criticize the Prabhakara's view in the ending
of paksataprakarana and the section ended. It means that the
view of the Prabhakara school on subjectness came to be widly
6 Raghunatha thought the relation of "some thing
accepted.
established and not to be separated" (ayutasiddha)
(samavaya) and the Prabhakara school thought of
as
inherence
the self
4. Vide part one, chapter D, section 7 (Gangesa Upadhyaya)
and part two, chapter A (Tattvacintamani).
5. Vide part two, chapter B (Tattvac intamanid墨dhiti).
6.
Vide text-54 of TCD.
