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Motion



Today, we are all familiar with motion. Every day and every moment we encounter it. Moreover we are very much familiar with Newton's Law of motion. But we must know how our seers observed motion. Given are the slokhas from Vaisheshika Darshanam - 1.1.20; 1.1.21;5.1.25 and its translations which shows how are ancient rishis  observed various physical laws.


And their translations are:
1. Motion is the cause of conjunction, disjunction, and velocity.
2. Motion against gravity is due to effort and conjunction is the effect.
3. Motion of precious stones and compass needle is due to invisible cause


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