History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c39.s4.11

c39.s4.11

The Samkhya-Patanjala conceives the properties (or energies) of substances to result from the grouping or the quanta of the *tanmatras*, or the *gunas* themselves, and hence any radical differences in substances of the same *bhuta* class must characterise their atoms, though in an infra-sensible form In the Nyaya-Vaiseshika, on the other hand, the atoms of the same *bhuta* class are alike in themselves, homogeneous; and the variety of substances, compounded under the same *bhuta*, is ascribed merely to the different arrangements or grouping of the atoms, and not of their components; for, components they have none.