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 “paksa� 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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TC proponent does not accept this definition. 82 -(sādhakapramāṇa,
The sadhakabadhakapramanabhava i. e. - (sadhakapr
badhakapramana) can be understood as follows: (1)
(-sadhakapramana, badhakapramana), (2) (sadhakapramāna,
-badhakap ramana), and (3) (-sadhakapramana, -badhakapramana).
Here, the proponent rules out the first and the second cases and
the third case is also ruled out in the subsequent portion.
With regard to the absence of both (ubhayābhava),
V. N. 1986a: 146ff).
cf. (Jha,
TEXT-4b: napy abhavadvayam tatha, badhakapramaṇabhāvasya
vyarthatvat. hrdade� paksatve 'pi badhahetvasiddhyader
ⲹ첹ٱԲԳܳٲⲹԳܳٱ.
TRANSLATION: Moreover, even the two absences are not (the
subjectness (paksata)), because the absence of the rejective
evidence (in that case) will become redundant. Even if the lake
becomes a subject, the inferential cognition is not allowed to
occur because the rejective evidence (badha), and non-
establishment of probans (hetvasiddhi) etc. are inevitable.
NOTES: The proponent says the two absences namely, the
absence of the supportive evidence and the absence of the
rejective evidence also cannot be subjectness. The two absences
abhāvadvayam of X and Y is (-X, -Y). Here, it is
(-sadhakap ramana, -badhakapramana). When there is an absence of
cognition of probandum (sadhya) and there is an absence of
cognition of absence of probandum, the subjectness occurs.
the same reason in the case of absence of both (ubhayabhava),
But by
