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Navya Nyaya Bhaashaa Pradeepaa of Mm. Mahesh Chandra Nyayaratna

This is a primer of Navya Nyaya written by a traditionally trained pandit circa 1900. It is in the form of a long essay written in simple Sanskrit. It has been translated into English by Prof. Ujjwala Jha in 2010 and published by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.

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Navya Nyaya Bhaashaa Pradeepaa of Mm. Mahesh Chandra Nyayaratna

This is a primer of Navya Nyaya written by a traditionally trained pandit circa 1900. It is in the form of a long essay written in simple Sanskrit. It has been translated into English by Prof. Ujjwala Jha in 2010 and published by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.

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MAHESACHANDRA NYAYARATNA
BR lEF NOTES ON THE

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MODERN NYAYA SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY AND ITS


TECHNICAL TERMS

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THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

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BRIEF NOTES ON THE MODERN NYAYA SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY AND ITS TECHNICAL TERMS.
BY

MAHAMAHOPADHYAY MAHESA CHANDRA NYAYARATNA,

C.

1.

E.

Hare Press

Calcutta.

The Library
University of California, Los Angeles

The

gift

of Mrs.

Cummings, 1 963

f/*-

Brief Notes on the Modern Nya'ya System of

Philosophy and

its

Technical Terms.

'T^HE
^?T

term Nyaya
(to go)

is

composed
(^by

of f^ (with certainty\ i or

and means literally the method of coming with certainty [to a conclusion]. As used in Hindu Philosophy it means the syllogism. Gotama is the earliest writer who treats of the syllogism and his work, the
which),
;

and

Gautama-Sutra (aphorisms of Gotama), and those of writers

who

discuss philosophical questions according to


not,

his

method,

whether they discuss the syllogism or


system of philosophy.

make up

the

Nyaya

Nyaya philosophy may be divided


Ancient Nyaya
all

into ancient

and modern.

treats not only of the

syllogism,

but discusses

sorts

of questions,

physical

and metaphysical, applying,


method.

where necessary, the


regards
the
subjects

syllogistic

Modern Nyaya,
to

as

of discussion,
it

makes no departure from


itself

the

ancient.

Rather,

restricts

fewer subjects;

209'^592

I
a

but those
precision

it

discusses,

it

discusses wiih a nicety and


It lays
it

minute
stress

unknown

to ancient Nyaya.

particular
at

on a

strict

definition

of

term:s,

and

aims

ascertaining

precisely even the

meanings of

expressions

in

common
in

use

and so

intelligible to all.

For example,
ifrcTtfr" (I.

Gotama,
1-2-3.)

putting

forth his aphorism, "^r^fT^'^ai:


it

does not think


of

necessary that

he should attempt any elucidation


ufcT^r
1

the
too-,

meaning of the term

His

earlier

commentators
attempt.

Pakshila Svamin and others,

make no such
discussion
?jr'^f*T'i"si

Gangesa
Nyaya,

Upadhyaya, the founder of the uTodern school of


enters

upon

lengthy

about
is

the

meaning
as

of

Hf^T'sTT,

remarking that
of
TTf?{=WT,

inadequate

characteristic

for,

^i^^TrT^^at might be understood


sgiw.

as simply meaning,
points.

naming the
forth

He
as

notices also other

of MTm^]

He

puts

the

following

the

characteristit

Raghunatha Siromani improves upon the above thus


XfgFicI5?n^n^^

^f^

!TiicTTgf*lfciq'^f^9I'ssT^^lficTTgfflfcT^T^IT^R^-

Then
greater
points,

follows Gadadhara,

who

discusses

the

question

at

length

than his predecessors, bringing out several nice


at last to the following

and comes

conclusion

13]
H^TTcn^q^cTT^^"^^T^f^^fq-arBJIcTrfH^fqcT^T>2IcTT^^'?^?^jiff^^-

An

old

Nyiya

wo-ik

lays

down
this

"^jsqfvr'gRfTig

or "^ir^sTTWT^
i

(invariable connection) as the characteristic attribute of ^ifff

Gangesa Upadhyaya thinks


cient,

characterisation
:

insufti-

and so he

delivers himself as follov/s

Raghunatha Siromani improves upon Gangesa's


tion thus
;

elucida-

He
a'nd

is

followed

by Bhavananda,

Mathunlnatha, J^gadisa
his

Gadadhara, each with some improvement of


is

own.

]agadisa's conclusion

as follows:

A
Nyaya.

hair-splitting
is,

subtlety

in

the

discussion

of

meanings

of terms

thus, the

distinguishing characteristic of
is

modern
Notwithtraining

Poverty of matter

its

great
it

drawback.

standing this drawback,

however,

is

aa

exccll-cnt

[
for the intellect, which,

4
its

I disciphne, acquires a
all

under
is
is

power

of

precise

thinking that
it

beyond
works
;

price.

Without a
thoroughly

study of

modern Nyaya
certain

impossible,

again,

to

understand

Sanskrit

on Philosophy,
example,

Law,

Rhetoric and even


a

Grammar

for

the Chitsttkhi^

treatise

commentary by Chitsukhachdryya on Nydyamakarajida ( on the Vedanta philosophy by A'nandabodha), the DdyabhdgaprabodJiim^ a commentary by Srikrishna Tarkdon Ddyabhdga
the
(

lanka'ra

treatise

on the Hindu Law


a

of

Inheritance),

Kdvyaprakdsddarsa,

Mahesvara
Rhetoric),

Nya'ylanka'ra

on

commentary Kdiynprakdsa ( a work


(

by

on

and Paribhdsendusekhara and Maiijusa


Bhatta.

works on

Grammar) by Na'gesa

The
the

Sutras of

Gotama, the Bhdshya of Pakshila Sva'min,


Tdtparyya-tikd

Vartika of Udyotaka'ra A'cha'ryya, the

of Va'chaspati Misra, the Tdtparyya-tikd-Prastiddhi of


A'cha'ryya
fall

under the head of ancient Nya'ya.

Udayana The works

on Vaiseshika philosophy, with the exception of


as Miiktdvali,

a few, such

may

also

be

included under the same head.


lived

All the works


in

on Nyaya from Gangesa's, who


century,

probably
lived
in

the

14th

down
17th

to

Gada'dhara's,

who

the latter end of the

century,

come under

the head of

modern Nya'ya.
Gangesa Upa'dhya'ya was a native of Mithila' (north-eastern
Beha'r;.

He
the

work
(

is

founded the modern school of Nya'ya. His great Tattva-Chmtdmani of which the subject is iWTir
sixteen categories
laid

proof), one of the

down by

Gotama"'
further

in his Sutras.

The system
at the

introduced by him received


his
disciples,

development

hands of

among whom was

[
his

own son Vardhama'na Upa'dhya'ya, up


in the

to

tlie

time of
15th

Pakshadhara Misra, who flourished


century.

middle of the

He

was the writer of a commentary called

Aloka
Paksha-

on Gangesa's Tattva-Chhifdmani.

Down
the

to the time of

dhara the study of modern Nya'ya


confined to Mithila, which became
all

was almost exclusively


resort of pupils

from

parts of India.
to decline

The

literary activity of the IMithila' school

began
called

after the

time of Pakshadhara, whose work

Aloka

is

the last standard work on


flourish,

modern Nya'ya.
it

The

school, however, continued to


in Mithila'.
It

and

is

not yet extinct

may be

noticed here incidentally that the works

of Gangesa and his followers effected a revolution in the study


of

Nya'ya and completely

superseded the

ancient

Nya'ya
so that

works, such as the Bhdshya, the Vartika, &c., so


very few Pandits of the present
these works.

much

day possess even copies of

From

Mithila' the study of

modern Nya'ya spread


began
to teach

to

Nava-

dvipa (Nadiya',

the

same

as Nuddea),

and the students who


it

had studied the subject


pupils in the latter place.

in IMithila

to their
first

introduced

the study of

The name of modern Nya'ya

the Pandit
into

who

Navadvipa can
is

not be ascertained.
est

Ra'mabhadra Siddha'ntava'gisa

the earli-

Nadiya' writer on Nya'ya of

whom we

have any certain

knowledge.
of

He

wrote

commentary

on the Kusurmx'njah
of the
in

Udayana
as

A'cha'ryya.

The image
(burnt mother)
to

goddess

Ka'li,
its

known

"Poda'-Ma"'

consequence of

having been burnt once, and


students on the eve

which offerings are made by


have been

of their departure from Navadvipa after


studies there,
is

the completion of their

said

to

set

up

for

worship by Ra'mabhadra.

After

Ra mabhadra came

Basudeva Sa'rvabhauma.
Nya'ya whicli
is

He

was the writer of a work


is

on

now

missing but

referred to in

other

works

on Nya'ya.
Didhiti
chapters

Raghuna'tha Siromani, the writer of the celebrated

which,

though
(

calhng

itself
)

commentary on the
Tattva-Chintdmani,

on Aniandna

inference

in the

contains a great deal of valuable original matter, was a pupil of Ba'sudeva Sa'rvabhauma, and, according to tradition, a con-

temporary of Chaitanya,
In his

the

celebrated Vaishnava reformer. received


its

hands

the

system of Gangesa

fullest

development, and from his time the fame of the Nadiya school

began to increase
pletely

until at last the

Mithila school
its

was comrival

thrown into the shade, yielding thus to


it

the

place which

formerly occupied.

The

Naiya'yikas of Nadiya

have ever since maintained

this position

a postion recognised
came
in succes-

by Pandits

all

over India.

After Raghuna'tha

sion Bhava'nanda Siddha'ntava'gisa, Mathura'na'th Tarkava'gisa,


Ja'ga'disa Tarka'lanka'ra

descendants of the

last

have

and Gada'dhara Bhatta'cha'ryya. The been distinguished Naiya'yikas,

and the
descent

greatest living Professor of Nya'ya at Nadiya', Maha'-

mahopa'dhya'ya Bhuvana

Mohana

Vidya'ratna,

is

the

sixth in

from

Gada'dhara.

Another

Bengali

Naiya'yika,
is

Krishnada'sa Sa'rvabhauma

but whether of Nadiya' or not


the Didhiti,
written

not known, wrote a commentary on

named
in

the

Didhiii Prasdrini of which a


1672,

MS. copy
1615

Samvat
era,

corresponding to the year

of the

Christian

exists in the

Government Sanskrit College


Nadiya
writers wrote
full

in Calcutta.

All these

commentaries on the Didhiii,

Mathura'na'tha writing a
besides,

commentary on the Chinfdmani

and they enlarged the technical terminology of modern

Nyaya.

To

give an example.

The terms

f?

and

fw<^^'7

both

imply duality, but while the former can never he predicated


a single individual, the latter can.

ot'

We

cannot

say.

"

^j,"

but can say

""^ig ffcgwT*T,"

so that ft and ff ^^jt

cannot have
is

the same meaning.

distinction
duality,

between the two meanings


as expressed by
ff,

made
for
its

thus

The idea of
(q?lrrfH)

requires

completion

an aggregate of two

objects.
^?f
I

There-

fore f% cannot

be predicated of a single object

But the

idea of duality, as expressed by ft-^^TST and meaning, 'belonging


to

an aggregate of two', and therefore not requiring

for

its

completion the aggregate of two objects but requiring only one


of them, can be predicated of a single object
class
=?ii.

The former
qQjtffre^^
^5ft^?i^j^?

of predication of

is

based on

what
the

is

called

(relation
(

completion},

and

latter

on

ordinary relation between object and attribute).

The
has been

technicalities of

modern Nydya have


its

hitherto repelled

students of Sanskrit
for

from

study.

The immemorial

practice

Naiyayikas

to

explain
it

verbally to their pupils

the meaning of each term as


teaching,

turns up in the course of their


after certain set formula;.
in
is

and the explanations are


the

hook

called

Nyaya-kosha was brought out


in 1875,
in

Bombay by
a Dictionary
it

Ehimacharyya Jhalakikar
of the Technical

and

this

book

terms used
full

Nyaya.

The

explanations
itself

gives are, however, not


yet

enough, and the work


I

has not
this

come

to

be generally known.

purpose, therefore, in
technicalities,

paper

to explain

some of these
I

and

this in

simple Sanskrit, as

cannot hope to be able to make matters


the

equally clear through of interpretation


Pandits,
is
is

medium

of English.

My

method
by
it

not the orthodox one

usually followed
to

which

have
to

thought

proper
matters

abandon

as

not one

calculated

make

quite

intelligible.

liave

had very

little

time to
to

spare
for

for

writing

tliis

piper,

Dr. Leitner's

request

me

paper having come to

me

only on
I

the 30th June

last.

With more time


paper
fuller.

at

my

disposal

would have made

my

have not

been able even


to

to look over the

proof-sheets

carefully,

owing

the

serious

and, as

it

has

now

proved,

fatal

illness of

my
and

eminent and revered friends

Dr.

Rajendralala

Mitra

Pandit Iswara Chandra Vidyasagara.

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Calcutta
Dated
the \st

"|

Mahes'achandra Nya'yaratna.

August, 1891. J

[Note. I have just learnt from an eminent Pandit of Navadwipa that Rdmabhadra SiddhAntavagisa, the commentator on Kustcmdnjali was not the person who set up the image of Podamd
alluded to in
the
p. 5.,

but that

it

same name.

There

is

was done by another person bearing no time now to ascertain the truth of

the matter.]

M. N.

HARE PRESS

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