Who among the following ancient Indian thinkers proposed that matter, on repeated division, would yield indivisible smallest particles called *parmanus*?
AAryabhata
BPatanjali
CCharaka
DAcharya Kanada
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Acharya Kanada
Acharya Kanada, recorded in the Sanskrit text *Vaisesika Sutras*, suggested that matter divided repeatedly reaches indivisible *parmanus*.
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