[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v2.c34.153 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c34.153 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c34.153 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c34.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c34.153) The Sánkhya-Pátañjala conceives the properties (or energies) of substances to result from the grouping or the quanta of the Tanmátras, or the Gunas themselves, and hence any radical differences in substances of the same Bhūta class must characterise their atoms, though in an infra-sensible form. In the Nyáya-Vaisesika, on the other hand, the atoms of the same Bhūta class are alike in themselves, homogeneous; and the variety of substances comprehended under the same Bhúta, is ascribed merely to the different arrangements or groupings of the atoms (व्यूह) and not of their components, for components they have none. - [Previous: v2.c34.152](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c34.152) - [Next: v2.c34.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c34.154) - [Up: v2.c34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c34) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c34.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c34.153) · Pramāṇa