Kanada

Kanada, also known as Kanabhaksha and Kanabhuj, was an ancient Indian natural scientist and philosopher, estimated to have lived sometime between the sixth and second centuries BCE, who founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy, considered to represent the earliest Indian physics. His traditional name means "eater of atoms," and he is known for developing the foundations of an atomistic approach to philosophy in the Sanskrit text Vaisheshika Sutra, also known as the Kanada Sutra. The school he founded explains the creation and existence of the universe through an atomistic theory applying logic and realism, one of the earliest known systematic realist ontologies in human history, proposing that everything can be subdivided until reaching indivisible, eternal smallest entities called paramanu that aggregate to yield complex substances with unique identity. Kanada's system describes six nameable and knowable properties, dravya, guna, karma, samanya, vishesha and samavaya, which he claimed sufficient to describe everything in the universe, including observers, and his ideas influenced other schools of Hinduism and became closely associated with the Nyaya school.