• Āstika (Sanskrit: आस्तिक; IAST: Āstika) and Nāstika (Sanskrit: नास्तिक; IAST: Nāstika) are concepts that have been used to classify the schools of Indian...
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  • categorized into āstika and nāstika schools of thought. Āstika and nāstika concept in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain scriptures define Astika as those sampradayas...
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  • philosophical systems that share concepts with the āstika traditions but reject the Vedas. These have been called nāstika (heterodox or non-orthodox) philosophies...
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    2007. Hexam 2011, p. chapter 8. Dwyer 2013. Holdrege 1996, p. 347. "astika" and "nastika". Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 20 April 2016. Monier-Williams...
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    Evidence". Audouin, Rémy, and Paul Bernard, "Trésor de monnaies indiennes et indo-grecques d'Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan). II. Les monnaies indo-grecques."...
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  • Ryan 2007, p. 399. Insoll 2002, p. 36. Harper & Brown 2012, p. 39. Kenoyer et al. 1983, p. 93. Leeming 2014, p. 1646. Leeming 2014, p. 1647. Rosen 2006...
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  • indiennes et comparées en l'honneur de Charles Malamoud. Volume 7 of Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses: Série Histoire et prosopographie...
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    there was a hostility between the orthodox Brahminic (Astika) groups and the heterodox, nAstika groups (Buddhism, Jainism, and atheists), like that between...
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  • is a distraction from the central task of the religious life. Within the astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy, the Samkhya and the early Mimamsa...
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    literally, not-two) is the oldest extant sub-school of Vedanta – an orthodox (āstika) school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice. Advaita darśana (philosophy...
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