Vaiśeṣika
A grouping recorded within Hinduism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Vaiśeṣika is recorded within Hinduism. The sources read do not establish whether it is extant. Also written Vaisheshika, Vaisesika.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Kaṇāda. No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. IEP's Hindu Philosophy survey: founder Kaṇāda, foundational text the Vaiśeṣika Sūtra, 1st century CE. A darśana, not a sect; status 'unknown' for the reason given under Nyāya.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Vaiśeṣika.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-vaisesika.
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title = {Vaiśeṣika},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.