Anviksiki Logic and Disputation: Sources & Texts | Prof. Shashi Prabha Kumar | #IKS #SangamTalks
95Bharatiya paramparic education has always been based on learning through Tarka, Logic, Reasoning and Nyaya Shastra has set rules of debates among scholars to understand Vedangas and Upanishads. Prof. Shashi Prabha expalins these various school of thoughts and their Methodology and Application. Anvikshki, that is investigating a subject in depth has given rise to such rich knowledge in Bharatiya Parampara.
About the Speaker:
Prof. Shashi Prabha Kumar is currently the Chairperson, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; a Distinguished Fellow of Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi and Dean, Sri Sankaracharya Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi Kendra. Earlier she was the Founder Vice-Chancellor at Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies, Madhya Pradesh and Chairperson, Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, New Delhi. Prof. Kumar is an acclaimed Sanskrit Scholar, well versed in classical Indian Philosophy, particularly the system of Vaiśeṣika, which was her area of Ph.D. research at University of Delhi (1983).
Her current research interests include the philosophy of Vedas and Upaniṣads, Vaiśeṣika, Mīmāṁsā and Vedānta besides Buddhism and Jainism. She has recieved several awards including the prestigious President’s Certificate of Honour in Sanskrit,
Topics Covered:
0:00 Invocation
2:22 Fourteen abodes of wisdom in Indian Darshan
4:12 Ultimate goal of knowledge is Self Knowledge
6:45 Whay is Anvikshaki?
9:19 Hindu logic - Nayaya Sutras
13:00 Sources of Anvikshki
15:50 Science of Reasoning
20:00 Vedic sources and upanishads
24:00 Science is based on Reasoning for proof
27:30 Importance of Sravana Manana and Dyana
32:10 Tarka and Sutarka - fulfilling the quest
36:19 Six Vedangas - parts of Vedas
40:30 From Satayuga to Kaliyuga - the cyclic notion of Time in Bharat
44:00 Nyaya the Indian logic based on Pramana, Prameya, Pramata and Prama, the output
47:30 Nyaya is Parikshan of The Object of investigation
48:46 Difference between Sutra and Sukta
52:20 Propagation of Sadvidya to counter Avidya
55:22 Indians discarded their own knowledge system in favour of another
58:45 Affirmative and Negative Tarka
1:02:55 Prashna, Sanshay va Tarka Mimansa
1:07:05 Theory of Knowledge
1:10:00 Logic - Dispute - Cause and Methods
1:15:40 Method - Listening to both sides, Purpose of Dispute
1:19:50 Reasoning - five features
1:24:40 Valid reason has no equivalent comparable counter reason
1:26:00 Invalid/ Fallacious reasons
1:30:26 Disputation and Counter argument
1:34:50 Various school of thoughts debated under Nyaya school
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