During recent excavations at the ruins of Vikramshila University in Bihar, archaeologists unearthed a cache of sealed clay jars containing fragments of a rare treatise on Vaisheshika philosophy. Preliminary analysis indicates the text focuses heavily on Paramanu-vada, the ancient Indian theory of atomism, providing complex mathematical proofs for the indivisibility of matter.
The manuscript, dated to the late Pala period, explores the causal relationship between atoms and the formation of the physical universe. This find is being hailed as a major breakthrough in the study of ancient Indian science and logic, offering evidence of advanced physical theories that were taught at the great Buddhist universities of the first millennium.