Digest Number 396 - "Astika, nAstika", etc.

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In the amara koSa vyAkhyAnam of li'ngayasUrin, the word nAstikah is explained as

"nAsti para loka iti matir-yasya sah nAstikah". M.Monier-Williams gives the

samskRt words for "athiest" as "nAstikah, deva-nindakah, and anISvara-vAdI".

Vaman Apte also gives the equivalents for "atheist" as "nAstkah, an-ISvara

vAdin, nir-ISvarah". The samskRt word for "atheism" he gives is "ISvara nindA".

The samskRt words for "theism" are given by Apte as "ISvara vAdah, Astikaya

vAdah", and for theist as ISvara vAdin. Prof. A. A. Ramanathan has given the

translation for the word "Astika" as "full of faith (in god)".

For "agnostic", Vaman Apte gives the samskRt equivalent as "anISvara-nirISvara

vAdin".

I have not been following the thread on this discussion, but hope the above

information will be useful.

-Krishnamachari

 

 

 

 

 

 

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