Kanada

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…