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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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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TCD 96 states that
svajanakasi峁Ｄ乨hayisa v膩cya, tasyas cesvara-
sadhara峁嘺taya samsayavad visesano palaksanavikalpa岣� samsaya-
vise峁峁嘺taya bhagavatapy anirvahyatv膩t, tasya tatrabh膩v膩t....,
(TCA: 173, 4-7). Jayadeva applies to the desire of God, i. e. God's
desire (bhagavat-sisadhayisa or bhagavad-iccha). Vide (TCA:
173, 5-14).
Raghunatha says that if a desire is a producer and the
desire is thought in God, subjectness will never stop
again and again, because God's desire can exist every moment and
everywhere.
Mathuranatha states this view in more detail than
Raghunatha. That is, it is not true that only a desire which is
of particular person, particular probans, particular probandum,
and particular subject is the subjectness of the person, The
reason is that God's desire exists everywhere. The reason is
that it will be a contingency of continuance of subjectness since
God's desire is a permanent entity even after the inferential
cognition of probandum. (na ca svaparas膩dh膩ra峁嘺tatpak峁ka-
tatsadhyakatallingakatatpurus Iyanumiticch膩m膩tram tatpuru峁Ｄ珁a-
tad峁泂anumitau pak峁t膩 v膩cya, tatha ca bhagavad墨ccham adayaiva
sarvatra sangatir iti vacyam, tatha sati bhagavadicchaya
nityatvena siddhau satyam api paksat膩prasangat.) (TCR: 426, 19
to 427, 6).
TEXT-4b: na ca tasy膩s tad膩n墨m na tajjanakatvam, tad dhi na
tad 1-yogyata, anapayat.
VARIANT: 1. TCDJ (2) omits tad-.
