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 117 The siddhis in the first, second, third, and sixth cases can
be an obstructing factor in each inferential cognition. But the
siddhis in the fourth and fifth cases cannot be an obstructing
factor in each inferential cognition.
Raghunatha says that for the inferential cognition in the
form 'parvato vahnih", all the cognition of probanda i. e. the
siddhis in the forms of parvate vahni岣� and parvato vahniman or
one established cognition of probandum i. e. the siddhi in the
form "parvate vahniman" can be an obstructing factor. And in the
case of that a cognition of probandum is established in the form
"parvate vahnih", an inferential cognition in the form "parvato
vahniman" alone is experienced. Cf. Gadadhara's commentary, i. e:
tadrsanumitim iti sadhyavisesyakanumitim ity artha岣�, siddhi-
matram paksavisesyik膩 sadhyavisesyik膩 ca siddhir ity artha岣�.
(TCDG: 1119, 29 to 1120, 1). Cf. (Bhattacharya, G. 1978: 83).
TEXT-18: atra ca vyaptismaranadina purv膩numitsanase
paramarsakale ca siddhisattve 'numits膩ntarotpattyaiv膩numitis,
tathaiva k膩ra峁嚹玝hutasya visistabhavasya sampattir鹿 ity
upadhyayah.
VARIANT: 1. TCDG reads sampatter for sampattir.
TRANSLATION: And here, (Yajnapati) Upadhyaya says that:
"after the remembrance of pervasion etc. when the previous
desire to infer is destroyed at the time of a confirmatory
cognition if there is the cognition of probandum, there can arise
an inferential cognition in which another desire to infer arises,
