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Kanada (also transliterated as
Canada and in other ways; Sanskrit
कणाद) was a
Hindu sage who founded the
philosophical school of
Vaisheshika. . 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. 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's called Satan or Devil and soul is the light part of the creator, the drop of the Ocean. He theorised that Gurutva 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.
It is believed that he often abstained from food by eating dirt.
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