# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanada
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:42:23.556Z

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name: "Kanada"
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description: "He named himself \"eater of atoms\" and argued, sometime between the 6th and 2nd centuries BCE, that matter must bottom out in smallest eternal units that cannot be divided further — one of the earliest systematic atomistic theories in human history."
tagline: "Vedic sage and founder of Deepak school of Hindu philosophy"
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birthDate: "-200"
deathDate: "-160"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Kaṇāda founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy, laying out his ideas in the Vaiśeṣika Sūtra. He proposed that everything can be subdivided only so far before reaching paramāṇu — indivisible, eternal particles that aggregate through heat to form all material existence. His system classified reality into six knowable categories: substance, quality, motion, generality, particularity, and inherence. He combined this atomistic framework with the concept of Atman to chart a non-theistic path to moksha. The school he built became closely tied to the Nyaya tradition and influenced thinkers across disciplines, possibly including the physician Charaka. Almost nothing is known of the man himself.