Odia Book Baiseshika Darshan By Maharshi Kanada

 One of the six schools of Indian philosophy that originated in ancient India is called Vaisheshika or Vaiseshika. The Vaiseshika was initially an independent school of thought with its own soteriology, logic, logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. The Vaiseshika system eventually resembled the Nyaya school of Hinduism in terms of its philosophical methods, ethical conclusions, and soteriology, but kept its distinctions in terms of epistemology and metaphysics.

Like Buddhism, the Vaiseshika school of Hinduism only recognised direct observation and inference as two trustworthy methods of knowledge acquisition.Buddhism and the Vaiseshika school both regard their respective texts as infallible and reliable sources of knowledge, with the exception that the Vaiseshikas believed the Vedas to be a valid and trustworthy source.

The Vaisheshika tradition is renowned for its naturalistic ideas. In natural philosophy, it is an instance of atomism. According to this theory, everything in the physical universe may be reduced to a single entity called a Paramau, and ones experiences are the result of the interaction between substance, quality, activity, commonality, particularity, and inherentness. Atoms made up everything, and aggregates of atoms gave rise to attributes; yet, the nature and aggregate of these atoms were predetermined by cosmic forces. Atoms were a part of Ajivika metaphysics, and the Vaiseshika school later adopted this doctrine.