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 152 with reference to the cognition of probandum,
the absence of a
desire in which the inferential cognition is the object is the
qualifier and in the presence of factors for perception when
there is that (=let there be a non-verbal cognition) desire,
since the inferential cognition does not arise, with reference to
the supportive evidence, the absence of desire in which the state
of being an inferential cognition is the qualifier etc. is the
qualifier, separately.
NOTES: Opponent wants
to
that the qualifier "absence of
desire" (anumitsaviraha) to the cognition of probandum (siddhi)
and the supportive evidence (sadhakamana) is not necessary,
inferential cognition arises without that qualifier.
because an
And because "the absence of a desire in which the inferential
cognition is the object"
the object"
(anumitivisayecchaviraha) is the
qualifier of the cognition of probandum
the cognition of probandum
(siddhi), and "the
absence of desire in which the state of being an inferential
cognition" (anumititvadiprakarakecchaviraha) is the qualifier of
the supportive evidence (sadhakamana).
TEXT-38:
svanivarttakapratyaks adisamagrisamavahitanya-
tvadina ca tadrsecchayor anugame t墨va gauravam.
anyataratva-
ghatakayor anyonyabhavayor mitho visesanavisesyabh膩ve
vinigamakabh膩vas ca.
TRANSLATION: And by being different from that associated
with the factors for perceptual cognition etc. which exclude
itself (desire), if such two desires are brought together there
