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

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

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

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

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

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

"Mother, were he abroad I’d bear the separation but to live in separate houses in the same village is worse than death"