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 118 because that is how a qualified absence is obtained".
NOTES:
This refers to Tattvacintamaniprabha of Yajnapati
Upadhyaya, i. e:
tatra hi prathamam paramarsa evotpadyate tadanantaram鹿
svak膩ra峁嚹乨 anumitsa taduttarak峁峁嘺 eva puna岣� smaranalaksanah2
paramarsas taduttaraksana eva canumitir iti
3 vinasyadavasth膩numitsaprayukta paksat膩 tatra tad膩n墨m
nirvighnaiva 4.
(Prabha: 101, 30 to 102, 2) = (TCP (2): 341, 4-6).
VARIANTS: (1). TCP (2) reads paramarsotp膩d膩nantaram for tatra
hi prathamam paramarsaivotpadyate, tadanantaram
(2). Prabha reads smaranaksanah for
smaranalaksanah.
(3). Prabha omits ca-.
(4). Prabha reads niscitaiva for nirvighnaiva.
The corrections depend on
(Bhattacharya, K. 1989: 118) and
(TCP (2): 341). Rucidatta also cites this sentence exactly in the
original form. Vide (TCP (2): 341, 4-6).
Yajapati's view is that an inferential cognition arises
even after two or three moments of a destruction of the first
desire, because another desire produces the inferential
cognition. It is rare that Raghunatha states a proper name in his
Didhiti. Here, Raghunatha refers to Upadhyaya and in text-53 and
54, he refers to the Prabhakaras.
TEXT-19: anye tu dvitrik峁峁嘺ntarit膩y膩m apy anumits膩y膩m
anumitidarsanad anumitsayogyata v膩cya. sa ca na svotpatty-
