According to the material universe is made up of Parmanu (Atoms). Kanad was the first person in the world to discuss atoms and molecules. It was Kanad who first propounded that the Parmanu (Atoms) was an indestructible particle of matter. He told them that individual grains in themselves may seem worthless, but a collection of some hundred grains make up a person’s meal, the collection many meals would feed an entire family and ultimately the entire mankind was made of many families, thus even a single grain of rice was as important as all the valuable riches in this world. Since then people started calling him Kanad, as “ Kan” in Sanskrit means “ Smallest particle“. Crowd gathered around him & one person asked him why was he collecting the grains even beggars wouldn’t like to touch these. Everybody thought he was insane as he was from a good family. He started collecting the grains of rice. Once he went on a pilgrimage, he saw thousands of pilgrims littered the town roads & the banks of river Ganga with flowers and rice grains which they offered at the temple. From his child days Kashyapa displayed a keen sense of service. His real name was Kashyap. He was the son of a philosopher named Ulka. The first Indian philosopher who formulated ideas about the atom in a systematic manner was Sage Kanad who lived in the 6th century B.C. However, It would be surprising for many people today to know that the theory of atoms was actually formulated 2,600 years ago by an Indian sage and philosopher. John Dalton (1766 – 1844) is the man credited today with the development of atomic theory.
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