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 110 mountain possesses fire" (parvato vahniman). And an inferential
cognition (anumiti) may arise later either as parvato vahniman or
pasanamayo tejasv墨. It is possible to arise an inferential
cognition in the form parvato vahniman when there is an
established probandum in the form pasanamayo tejasv墨. The reason
is that, in this case,
the delimitor of probandum-ness of
inferential cognition is vahniman and the delimitor of
But the
subjectness of inferential cognition is parvatatva.
delimitor of probandum-ness of cognition of probandum (siddhi) is
tejas and the delimitor of subjectness of the siddhi is
pasanamayatva. Both the delimitors are different from each
other. Therefore,
that siddhi cannot be an obstructing factor of
that inferential cognition, and the inferenta il cognition arises.
Visvanatha cites Raghunatha's sentence
sentence
as follows:
parvatas tejasvi pasanamayo vahniman iti j帽anasattve 'pi anumiter
na virodhah. (NSM: 251, 4 to 252, 1).
Mathuranatha cites Raghunatha's sentence as follows:
sadhyaniscayas canumitisamanak膩lo grahyah tena pasanamayatv膩din膩
parvate tejas tv膩din膩 ca vahne岣� siddhav api parvatatvena parvate
vahnitvadina vahnyadyanumitir iti. (TCR: 434, 2-4).
