Vaisheshikha Sutra by Kanada is divided into ten cantos, each containing two sections. Prasastapada wrote a commentary on this Sutra introducing a special category of reality known as Uniqueness (vişeśa). Thus the system is known as Vaisheshikha. It is allied to the Nyaya system of philosophy. Both systems accept the liberation of the individual self as the end goal, both view ignorance as the root cause of all pain and misery, and both believe that liberation is attained only through right knowledge of reality. Seven categories of Reality it postulates are: substance, quality, action, generality, uniqueness, inherence and non-existence.

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