Prashastapada

(5th c.) Author of the Padarthadharmasangraha.This text is the most influential
commentary on Kanada’s Vaisheshika
Sutras, the founding text of the
Vaisheshika school, one of the six
schools of traditional Hindu philosophy. The Vaisheshika school was atomistic, believing that all things were made
up of a few basic constituent substances: the five elements (earth, fire,
water, wind, and akasha) along with
space, time, mind, and individual selves
(atman). The five elements combined to
form the things in the world, though
selves were considered ultimately different from matter.