"He should not spend the morning, midday or afternoon fruitlessly, but pursue righteousness, wealth and pleasure, to t…"

"The Dharma-Shâstras give a completely far-fetched theory of the origins of the castes, e.g. the Gautama-Dharma-Shâstr…"

"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 …"

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

"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 VS takes the world to be atomic, with atoms of four kinds. Each material substance is composed of these atoms, tw…"

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

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

"The VS considers reality to have two aspects: physical and consciousness, with the two interacting when an observatio…"