Nigrahasthana

Nigrahasthana

According to Maharishi Gautama, nigrahasthana consists of apratipatti or ignorance and vipratipatti or false cognition. The arguer fails to discharge the duties allotted to him either due to apratipatti or vipratipatti. He may either fail totally or partially, when he does not discharge his duties within the appropriate time and in the proper manner. This outcome being detected leads to the humiliation of the arguer. Gautama has mentioned nigrahasthana by name in the first Nyayasutra an…

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Paksata

Paksata

Following are the translation of Paksata of the chapter on inference in Tattvacintamani:

• After explaining the nature of pervasion, paksadharmata is considered. (In the term paksadharmata the part) paksata cannot be equated with the property of doubtful probandum. Doubt cannot function as an essential-qualifier (viseṣaṇam) because after the perception of the probans and the remembrance of pervasion etc. doubt would vanish just before the occurrence of immediate sufficient cause (paramarsa) of t…

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