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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. PERVASION (VYAPTI)
The knowledge of pervasion is the producer (anukula) of
inferential cognition (karya). 1 The pervasion is an
relation between probans and probandum.
invariable
If there is a smoke,
there is inevitably a fire on the same locus. This relationship
between smoke and fire is pervasion. The fire is a pervader
(vyapaka), because the fire pervades smoke. And the smoke is a
pervaded (vyapya) because the smoke is pervaded by fire. In other
words, pervasion is a relationship through which probans and
probandum are collocated (s膩m膩n膩dhikaranya)? Gangesa mentioned
twenty two definitions of pervasion. He criticized twenty one of
them. One of the criticized definition by Gangesa was quoted in
the Nyayasiddhantamukt膩val墨. 4
3 1. Gangesa says in the beginning of Tattvacintamani that
tatra vyaptivisistapaksadharmataj帽膩najanyam j帽膩nam anumiti岣�,
(TCP (2): 5). And cf. text-1 of TCD (part two, chapter B).
2. With regard of the detail study of Gahgesa's conclusive
definition of pervasion, vide (Wada 1990: 126ff.).
3. Cf. (Wada 1990: 114f.).
.V
sadhyavatanyav峁泃titvam. (TCDG: 113). vyapti岣�
sadhyavadanyasminn asambandha udah峁泃ah. (NSM: 226).
