Sages & Scientists · Vaisheshika School
Acharya Kanada
कणाद
Kaṇāda
The classical Indian atomist whose Vaisheshika Sutra posits an eternal, indivisible particle (paramāṇu) as the building block of all matter — a remarkably modern intuition framed in 6th-century BCE metaphysics.
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- Era
- c. 6th–2nd century BCE
- field
- Atomism, philosophy of matter
- sourcing
- textually attested
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