'Aasti' ?

Venkatraman Iyer venkatraman_iyer at HOTMAIL.COM
Sat Feb 24 12:20:12 UTC 2001


>How about: 'from his master, he comes to own [lit. becomes the possessor
>of] a property of twenty thousand [currency units understood].'

This is correct. aastika = 'possessor' (of belief in God),
and naastika = 'non-possessor'. naasti is explaine as the
opposite of aasti by pauranikas.


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