Vaiśeṣika

Vaiśeṣika traced its systematic exposition to the Vaiśeṣika Sūtra of Kaṇāda, who is placed between the sixth and second centuries BCE. Although it developed independently, its methods and conclusions later drew close to those of Nyāya. In the second half of the seventeenth century Annambhaṭṭa wrote the Tarka-saṅgraha and his own commentary, presenting the combined Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system to beginners.