Note 165 — Chapter X · THE VAIŚESHIKA OR AULÚKYA DARŚANA.[154]
Edward B. (Edward Byles) Cowell translation
"Particularity" (whence the name Vaiśeshika) is not "individuality, as of this particular flash of lightning,"—but it is the individuality either of those eternal substances which, being single, have no genus, as ether, time, and space; or of the different atomic minds; or of the atoms of the four remaining substances, earth, water, fire, and air, these atoms being supposed to be the ne plus ultra, and as they have no parts, they are what they are by their own indivisible nature. Ballantyne translated viśesha as "ultimate difference." I am not sure whether the individual soul has viśesha.