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 2 - The Paksata: Sanskrit Texts, English Translation, and Notes
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TCD 95 cognition arises from a desire to infer which has an object of
probans-ness existing in an inferential cognition from
confirmatory cognition on the basis of remembrance.
Mathuranatha quotes this sentence as follows: nanu tatrapi
paramarsottaram anumit 墨stasadhanataj帽膩n膩t punar anumits膩 tata岣�
paramarsantaram tato 'numitih, atha va paramarsottaram
smara峁嘺tmakanumitistasadhanatavisayakaparamarsantaram tato
'numits膩 tato 'numitir iti phalabal膩t kalpan墨yam ity ata aha
sisadhayiseti. (TCR: 426, 13-17).
TEXT-4a: na canumitijanikecchaiva鹿 pak峁t膩. sa ca kvacit
svanisthaiva 2 kvacid 鲁 Isvaranisthaiva sulabheti v膩cyam.
3 tasya nityatvena siddhau satyam api paksat膩prasahg膩t.
VARIANTS: 1. TCD reads -iva for -eva.
2. TCDG and TCDJ (2) read -iva for -eva.
3. TCD, TCDG, TCDJ (1), TCDJ (2), and (TCR: 427, 5)
read sarvatra- for kvacid.
TRANSLATION: It is not the case that mere desire to produce
an inferential cognition is the subjectness and that (desire
(iccha)) exists sometimes in a person or sometimes in God easily,
because in that case there will arise the contingency (of
continuance) of subjectness since it (=God's desire) is a
permanent entity even after the inferential cognition of
probandum.
NOTES: Jagad墨sa comments that this is Jayadeva's view i. e.
ramatam asankya nisedhati na ceti" (TCDJ (2): 59). Jayadeva
"misrama
