Claims
are made by some(http://puratansciences.blogspot.in/2011/11/any-one-will-laugh-if-i-were-to-say.html)
that Newton’s laws of motion are discovered by Rishi kanada founder of Indian philosophical school of vaisheshika
. Below I have analysed it and shown why
it is wrong.
MY REPLY TO THE ABOVE ARTICLE IS AS FOLLOWS:
SUMMARY OF THE
ARTICLE MAKING THE CLAIM
SAMYOGA VIBHAAGA
VEGHAANAAM KARMA SAMAANAM. [ VAISHESHIKA SUTRA -- 1.1.20]
Samyoga – Conjunction Vibhaaga –
Disjunction Veghaa -- impulse
creating actions Karma -- FORCE
thus..force is that which causes
conjunction,disjunction or an impetus.
which implies ..... FORCE IS A PUSH OR A PULL
!!
The very next defintion says...
NA DRAVYANAAM
KARMA. [ VAISHESHIKA SUTRA 1.1.21]
NA - DON'T; DRAVYA - substance ;
KARMA-FORCE
Do not thing the force is the
body itself.It is different. (it is external that we are talking here)
Let me go back to the sixteenth
postulate of the same chapter to explain further the exension of the same
definition.
It says .. Here comes newton's
first law...Er...KANADA's LAW !!
DRAVYASHRAYYAGUNAVAAN
SAMYOGA VIBHAAGESHU AKAARANAM ITHI GUNA LAKSHANAM [ VAISHESHIKA SUTHRA 1.1.16]
Dravyashrayee-- in the body; GUNAVAAN
-- attributes;SAMYOGA--CONJUNCTION;VIBHAGA-DISJUNCTION; AKARAANAM-- not the
reason GUNA LAKSHANAM - charecters of attributes.
It says that conjunctions and
disjunctions being caused by force, and that force is not the body itself.the
body only possesses its own qualities. Thus it is implied that with only the
body and its qualities(no external force), there is no change. NEWTON'S FIRST
LAW !!!!
A body continues to stay stationary
without an external force !! MY REPLY TO THE ABOVE ARTICLE IS AS FOLLOWS:
1) Mistranslation of the word Karma . Karma
doesn’t mean force it can be loosely translated as Action or movement . But
action meant not to be interpreted exactly as we use today
To quote S N Das gupta (History of Indian
philosophy part 1 ch-8 pg 317)
Karma means movement ; it is the third thing which must be held to be as
irreducible a reality as dravya or guna. There are five kinds of movement, (1)
upward, (2) downward, (3) contraction, (4) expansion, (5} movement in general.
All kinds of karmas rest on substances just as the gunas do, and cause the things to which they belong to move.
The crucial
thing to note is that vaisheshika’ held that Karma (and Guna) as something part
of reality a kind of ontological category. Clearly it is different from the
concept of action as defined by Newton in his laws.
Again Mistranslatio n of word samyoga
To quote S N Das gupta (History of Indian
philosophy part 1 ch-8 pg 316)
The ninth is samyoga (connection), that entity of guna by virtue
of which things appear to us as connected.
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