Pre-Colonial Paradigms

World Views

Manipulated

by means and

Instruments

Outside the

realm of the

manipulable

1 2

Theoretical

Constructs

Systematic

constructs

1 2

Rational approach to reality

Atomism

Space

Time

Heat

Doctrine

of the 5

elements

Vedic

1

F i v e f o r m s o f m at t e r

e x i s t i n e v e ry t h i n g i n t h e w o r l d

ELEMENTS

Mutual interrelation

Mutual interdependence

interpenetration

WATER

All are

derived

from

MEDICINE

Firm

Solid

Rough

Hard

Olfactory

sense

bile Visual

sense

Inhalation

exhalation

cutaneous

sense

Liquid

Mobile

Slow

viscid

gustatory

sense

porosity

aUDITORY

sense

Universal Cosmic Law

Regulates the physical

and non-physical world

At

om

ism

2

Primordial stuff of the universe

NYAYA VAISESIKA

NYAYA VAISESIKA

NYAYA VAISESIKA

jains

jains

jains

buddhists

buddhists

3

Bodies are recognized to occupy

separate positions.

Atomism

Space

Time

Heat

Doctrine

of the 5

elements

Atomism

Space

Time

Heat

Doctrine

of the 5

elements

Atomism

Space

Time

Heat

Doctrine

of the 5

elements