https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6864 2026-04-26T15:46:54Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6883 Title: The Principle of Contradiction: Nyāya and Western Logic Authors: Shaw, J. L. Description: PP:1-6 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6882 Title: Being and Nothingness in Indian thinking since RgVeda to Nagarjuna Authors: Bilimoria, Purushottama Abstract: The paper is an inquiry on the concept of non-being and its permutations of nothing in the Indian intellectual tradition. It begins by asking whether there is anything close to the idea of creatio ex nihilo in the Ṛgveda down to the later Brahmāṇic protagonists vis-à-vis the Śramanic antagonists, in particular in the Jain and Buddhist darśanas. Here Nāgārjuna’s nuanced dialectic of emptiness is prevailed to problematize and complicate further the already troubled status of being/Being in the Indic tradition and erosion made by the rise of non-being/nothingness, and of course the doctrine of Śūnyatā (Emptiness). The paper ends with some consideration of the responses to the afore-mentioned challneges from the doyens of Vedānta, namely, Śaṅkara abd Rāmānuja. Description: PP:7-16 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6881 Title: Logic of Paryāpti Relation in Navya Nyāya Authors: Ghosh, Raghunath Abstract: A novel relation called paryāpti has been accepted by the Navya Naiyāyikas for explaining certain cases, which are inexplicable through other relations. This relation is accepted to justify cognition of a property remaining in conjoint objects (vyāsajyavṛttidharma). The term paryāpta means ‘that which does neither exist in less places nor more places’ (anyūṇānatirikta). The property - ‘two-ness’ (dvitva) exists sufficiently or completely or pervadingly in two substances (dvitvaṁ dvayoḥ paryāptam). In the expression - ‘The blue jar is not there’ (nīlo ghaṭo nāsti), the absentee (pratiyogī) is ‘a blue jar’ (nīlo ghaṭaḥ) and the limitors of the absenteeness (pratiyogitāvacchedaka) are both blueness (nīlatva) and jarness (ghaṭatva). The property of being a limitor of an absenteeness (pratiyogitāvacchedaka) remains in both ‘blueness’ (nīlatva) and ‘jarness’ (ghaṭatva) simultaneously through relation called paryāptī. A distinction has also been shown between samavāya and paryāpti. Description: PP:17-23 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6880 Title: Changing Nature of Yoga through the Ages Authors: Betal, Chintaharan Abstract: Introduction: When the history of yoga studied carefully, it has been conspicuous that the nature of yoga undergone a variety of changes from the remote antiquity to its present stage of development. Objective: Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the facts to unveil how the nature of yoga has changed along with the change of ages. Methods: The qualitative data for study was collected from the findings of various researches as well as textual evidences of associated fields and an analytical and descriptive method was adopted for analyzing the collected data. Results: In the course of evolutionary phases of yoga, Austric, Dravidians and Aryans contributed a lot for shaping and moulding the nature of ancient yoga. Besides, the worship of mystic power, concept of mother-goddess and father-god, the evolution of yantra, mantra and tantra along with the impact of physical, socio-cultural as well as psychological factors have greatly been contributed in shaping and changing the nature of yoga through the ages. At the beginning of creation, the purpose of yoga was primarily ‘mundane’ rather than spiritual and the spiritual development at that time was only a secondary purpose. In the later ancient time, the sole nature of yoga practice was to attain ‘spirituality’ whereas in the medieval period; the nature of yoga transformed into a ‘mystical nature’. Similarly, in the early modern period, yoga came out of the mysticism and evolved as a ‘scientific’ subject with ‘social’ and ‘public nature. In the modern period, yoga has emerged as a ‘therapeutic subject’ and in addition to this, yoga also held its ‘commercial nature’. Discussion: The study noticed that the entire concept, structure and nature of yoga have undergone an incredible changes in modern times and specifically, during the last sixty years (i.e., from1960 AD to till the date). Conclusion: Thus, the study concluded that Yoga has achieved a variety of identities which have been accepted in different ways at different times throughout the course of its development. Description: PP:24-33 2023-03-30T00:00:00Z