philosophical concept

asat

non-existence (asat)

Non-existence: the asat of "there was neither non-existence nor existence then" (RV 10.129.1). Unlike sat it is already a noun in its own right -- the Rigvedic annotation lemmatises it asant-, separately from the root -- and existence is twice said to have sprung from it (RV 10.72.2-3). In the Atharvaveda it is one pole of a paired cosmological formula (AVS 4.1.1, 10.7.10, 17.1.19). Not filed under VG:CONCEPT:SAT-EXISTENCE: non-existence is not a kind of existence.

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Corpus reach

Passages reached

Passages that reach this record through the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates this surface counts.

Passages reached. Passages that reach this record through the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates this surface counts.
Rigveda		5
Samaveda	Insufficient evidence	not established
Yajurveda	Insufficient evidence	not established
Atharvaveda		3

A null is not a zero: it means this object was not reached in that corpus by the lexical, conceptual or ritual predicates counted here. The mention layer's measured recall is 0.8857, so even a reached corpus is a lower bound.

Other names

asacasatināsadnon-existencenon-existent

How this record was built2

`passage_count` counts DISTINCT passages reaching the object through the lexical, conceptual and ritual predicates this surface counts, and is the same figure the detail view reports. It is NULL, never 0, where no passage reaches it: the mention layer's measured recall is 0.8857, so a null is a lower bound and not an assertion that the corpus is silent.
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`co_mentioned` is CO-OCCURRENCE WITHIN A MANTRA and nothing more. It carries no causal, prescriptive or pharmacological claim: a plant named beside an affliction is named beside it, and apamarga is named against sorcery rather than against a cough. `neighbours` holds the curated edges, which are a different strength of claim; the two are separate fields so they cannot be read as one.
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Direct relationships

Named in the same verses