"The world of heaven is as far removed from this world, they say, as a thousand earths stacked one above the other."

"The Tandya Mahabrahmana (V.92) similarly states: The Ekashtaka day is the wife of the year. When this night comes the…"

"Put simply, the main insight of the Vaiśeṣika is that consciousness is not to be found as a property that emerges out…"

"Kaṇāda speaks of nitya as a property that does not change or is invariant. From the perspective of physics, the idea …"

"There are nine classes of substances (dravya), some of which are non-atomic, some atomic, and others all-pervasive. T…"

"The intuition behind the theory is that one atom is indicative of solidity and this is the heaviest; the second atom …"

"As I began to study the VS I was astonished by the sophistication of the system. Concluding that Kaṇāda’s work is a m…"

"The Vaiśeṣika system has categories not only for space-time-matter but also for attributes related to perception of m…"

"The VS anticipates most of Newton’s laws of motion, including the one on how an object continues in its state of rest…"

"The Vaiśeṣika Sūtra (VS) is a central Indian text, but somehow it was ignored by scholars during the past century or …"