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 109 tallihgaka-iccha is the actual obstructing factor. With regard to
obstructing factor (pratibandhaka), cf.
(pratibandhaka), cf.
(Ny膩yakosa: 532f.).
TEXT-11: sadhakamanam sadhyavattvaniscaya岣�. pasanamaya-
tvadina parvate tejastvadina ca vahneh siddhav api, parvatatvena
tatra vahnitvena ca tasyanumiter, dharmitvasadhyatvayor
avacche dakav anupravesan墨yau.
TRANSLATION:
A supportive evidence means a definite
on the
cognition of the state of having a probandum (in a subject).
Although a fire is already established as tejas etc.
mountain in the form of pasanamaya etc., still it is observed
that an inferential cognition of probandum arises as vahni, on
the mountain in the form of parvata, for the two delimitors of
property-possessor-ness and probandum-ness are to be
incorporated.
NOTES: The delimitor of probandum-ness (sadhyatavacchedaka)
and the delimitor of subjectness (paksatavacchedaka) of
inferential cognition should be the same delimitor of probandum-
ness and the same delimitor of subjectness, respectively, of a
supportive evidence (sadhakamana).
That is, the supportive
evidence should be in a subject,
in a subject,
in other words, when a probandum
(sadhya) is in a subject (paksa), the cognition of probandum can
be
an obstrucing factor of an inferential cognition.
The established cognition (siddhi) may be "the mountain
consisting of rocks possesses heat" (pasanamayo tejasv鈧�) or "the
