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न्यस्तिका (nyastikA)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Ny-astikā seems in the Atharvaveda^1 to denote a plant of
some kind, identified by the scholiast with the Śaṅkhapuṣpikā
(Andropogon aciculatus).
1) vi. 139, 1. Cf. Whitney, Transla-
tion of the Atharvaveda, 385
Bloom-
field, ymns of the Atharvaveda, 539,
540.