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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 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
Rasavātam, considered to be a type of
alchemy. In his text, the
Vaishashik Darshana, he describes an atomic theory more than a century before
Democritus developed one in ancient Greece. He believed that all objects were comprised of nine elements: earth, water, light, wind, ether, time, space, mind and soul.
Indian
Category:Indian philosophersCategory:Hindu sagesCategory:Indian materialistsCategory:Ancient Indian materialist philosophersru:Канада (философ)