History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c39.s6.23

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The Charaka school, which, we have seen, was an offshoot of the Samkhya, supplemented the above account of inorganic and organic compounds with a characteristically Samkhya explanation of the formation of molecular qualities by chemical combination. In Charaka's view, the colours, tastes, etc. of the molecules of chemical compounds result from the collocation in unequal proportion and from the unstable equilibrium of the different forces latent in the atoms (*paramanus*) themselves