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Baiseshika Darshana By Maharshi Kanada
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Odia Book BaiseshikaDarshana By MaharshiKanada The Vaisheshika Sutras mention competing schools of Indian philosophy such as Samkhya and Mimamsa, but not Buddhism, leading scholars in more recent publications to place it in the 6th century BCE. The manuscript of the Vaisheshika Sutras has survived into the modern era in multiple versions, and the discovery of newer manuscripts in different parts of India by Thakur in 1957 and Jambuvijayaji in 1961, followed by critical edition studies, suggest that the text attributed to Kada was systematised and finalised sometime between 200 BCE and the beginning of the common era, with the possibility that its key doctrines are much older. Multiple Hindu texts from the first and second centuries CE, such as the Kushan Empire's Mahavibhasa and Jnanaprasthana,