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 151 of probandum is the obstructing factor". The cognition of
probandum is the obstructing factor of the inferential cognition.
And the absence of obstructing factor is the cause of inferential
cognition. Both the ideas are correct, but Raghunatha is
discussing the supportive evidence (sadhakamana) which is the
cognition of probandum or the obstructing factor of the
inferential cognition here from text-34a. Therefore, Gadadhara's
interpretaion is better than Bhavananda's and Jagad 墨sa's.
TEXT-37: na canumitsavirahasya pratyekam visesanatve
gauravam, sabdasiddhau satyam asabdam janam j膩yat膩m iticch膩y膩m
anumiter utpadat, siddhav anumitivisayecch膩virahasya 2
pratyak峁s膩magr墨sattve ca tad峁泂ecchayam anumity 3-anutp膩d膩t. 4
sadhakamane
'numititvadiprakarakecchavi rahasya prthag eva
visesanatayas tvayapi vacyatvat.
VARIANTS: 1. TCDG and TCDP read pratyeka- for pratyekam.
2. TCDG reads -visayaka- for visaya-. TCDJ (2)
reads -visesaya- for visaya.
3. TCDJ (2) omits anumity-. TCDP reads anumiter for
anumity-.
absence of a
4. TCDP reads -anutpadena for -anutp膩d膩t.
TRANSLATION: One cannot argue that if an
desire to infer is made a qualifier to each one, then it will
lead to cumbersomeness, because when there is a verbal cognition
if there arises a desire "let there be a non-verbal knowledge",
the inferential cognition arises and so you too should say that
