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 130 sequence of (1) anumitsa,
(2) siddhi, (3) paramarsa, (4) anumiti,
the time of destruction of the desire to infer, there are the
cognition of probandum, the confirmatory cognition, and the
inferential cognition. In this case, there is no room for
subjectness to arise, because at the moment the destruction of
desire to infer has already taken place, there is the cognition
of probandum.
TEXT-24d: atha prathamak峁nam鹿 apeksya dvitiyasyeva,
dvit墨yam apeksya trtiyasyapy avyavahitottaratvam 2.
svadhvamsadhikara峁嘺k膩ladhvamsanadhikara峁嘺tve sati
svadhikara峁嘺k膩ladhvamsadhikara峁嘺tvam v膩 t膩d峁泂avyavahitottaratvam
at
vacyam.
VARIANTS: 1. TCDP reads prathamam for prathamaksanam.
2. TCDJ (2) reads avahitottaratvam for
avyavahitottaratvam.
TRANSLATION: Well, as the second (moment) is considered as
immediately subsequent to the first moment, so also the third
(moment) can be treated as an immediately subsequent to the
second moment.
the state of being a locus of a destruction at
a time which is the locus of itself (=siddhi), at the same time
not being the locus of a destruction at a time which is the locus
of its own destruction is to be treated as that type of
immediacy.
NOTES: The moment of locus where there is a destruction of
the cognition of probandum follows immediately after the moment
of locus where there is the cognition of probandum. In the
