An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c9.76

c9.76

§ 150. As we have seen above, the Vaiśeṣika system already existed in the first century A. D., and it may be still older. The classic treatise, the Vaiśeṣika-sūtras, is attributed to Kaṇāda Kāśyapa. The Vaiśeṣika and the Nyāya systems apparently grew up side by side, and the two sūtra manuals seem to have been edited with close reference to each other.²