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 121 Though Rucidatta's quotation is not the same as the original
sentence of Jayadeva's Aloka here, Rucidatta cites exactly from
the original texts in many cases. But Raghunatha has shortened
the original sentences in his quotations in all the cases. Here,
Raghunatha cites Jayadeva's view but the sentence is from
Rucidatta's Prakasa. And Raghunatha arranges the sentence more
concisely than the sentence of Prakasa.
Jayadeva's view is that an inferential cognition can arise
in spite of the time gap of two or three moments between a desire
to infer and an inferential cognition. The reason is that the
desire has a compatibility (yogyata). If we
(yogyata). If we
accept Yajnapati's
solution which is that another desire causes the inferential
cognition after the time gap, even after one day another desire
will give rise to the inferential cognition.
TEXT-20a: kim tv anumits膩nantaram lingadarsanadikramena
yavata kalenotsargata岣� paramarso jayate tavan eva k膩lah.
phalabalena tatha kalpanat.
TRANSLATION: (1) But it means that much time which is
required for a confirmatory cognition to arise in a normal course
of time after the desire to infer through the perception of
probans etc. This is postulated so on the basis of result.
NOTES: Raghunatha criticizes Jayadeva's view in three
points in text-20a to text-20c.
The normal course of time (k膩lenotsargatas)
is that;
a desire, an experience of probans, a remembrance of pervasion,
