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 --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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