Kanada (also transliterated as Kanad and in other ways; Sanskrit कणाद) was a
Hindu sage who founded the
philosophical school of
Vaisheshika. He is considered as the father of
Atom theory. He talked of Dvyanuka (biatomic
molecule) and tryanuka (triatomic
molecule) He probably lived around
600 BCE according to some accounts. It is believed that he was born in Prabhas Kshetra (near
Dwaraka) in
Gujarat,
India. His area of study was Rasavādam, considered to be a type of
alchemy. In his text, the Vaisheshik Darshana, he describes an atomic theory more than a century before
Democritus developed one in ancient Greece. He believed that all living beings are composed of five elements: water, fire, earth, air, ether. Vegetables have only water, insects have water and fire, birds have water, fire, earth and air, Humans the top of the creation has ether the sence of discrimination. (time, space, mind)are one. Kal is time, the universal mind, the ruler of the first spiritual region. In religions he is called Satan or Devil and soul is the light part of the creator, the drop of the Ocean. He theorised that Gurutva (
gravitation) was responsible for the falling of objects on the Earth. Vaiseshika is one of
the six orthodox (
vedic) schools of Indian philosophy, usually paired with
Nyaya, another of those six.
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Kanada (Sanskrit) The sage who founded the Vaiseshika or atomist school of Hindu philosophy. Like the Greek atomists Democritus and Epicurus, Kanada was no materialist for, just as they did, he believed in divinities or intelligent cosmic entities as the primal causes and governors in the universe. See also
ATOMISTS.
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