A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.781

v2.c30.781

Cakra says that yukti is, essentially (paramārthatas), not a separate pramāṇa, but an assistant element (pramāṇasahāyībhūta), resembling ūha (deliberation; conjecture; a process of reasoning carried on in one's mind before one can come to any right conclusion: S. Dasgupta, 1975: II, 377) and difficult to distinguish from anumāna, which explains that it is sometimes absent from the enumerations of the pramāṇas in the Carakasamhitā. In support of his opinion, Cakra quotes Śāntarakṣita's Tattvasamgraha (1692–95; the quotation presents many variants when compared with the edition, which, however, do not affect the sense of the verses) and Kamalaśīla's commentary on that work (see G. Jha, 1986: 827), because both object against yukti being a distinct pramāṇa and regard it as a form of anumāna.