He began writing down his ideas and teaching them to others. Thus, people began calling him Acharya (meaning “the teacher”) which explains the name Acharya Kanad, meaning “the teacher of small particles.”Īcharya Kanad. Since then, people began calling him Kanad, as Kan in Sanskrit means “the smallest particle.” Kanad went on to pursue his fascination with the unseen world and with conceptualizing the idea of the smallest particle. Thus, he explicated, even a single grain of rice was as important as all the valuable riches in this world. He went on to explain that the collection of many meals would feed an entire family and ultimately the entire mankind was made of many families.
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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 Indian sage was asked why he was collecting the grains that even a beggar wouldn’t touch.
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( wongvaris / Adobe Stock) Acharya Kanad – Indian Sage and Teacher of Small ParticlesĪcharya Kanad was born in 600 BC in Prabhas Kshetra (near Dwaraka) in Gujarat, India. The Indian sage, Acharya Kanad, got his name from a story about him collecting grains of rice strewn on the ground. While John Dalton, an English chemist and physicist, is the man credited today with the development of atomic theory at the turn of the 19th century, a theory of atoms was actually formulated 2,500 years before Dalton by an Indian sage and philosopher, known as Acharya Kanad.