The story
- Sanskrit · borrowed fromनास्तिक“heterodox”
- English todaynastika
Borrowed from Sanskrit नास्तिक (nāstika, “heterodox”), from नस्ति (nasti, “to not exist”), negative of अस्ति (asti, “exists”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nastika
Today it means: Not astika. Full definition →
Sanskrit नास्तिक