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as "santanam punati visodheti", meaning 'it cleans or purifies the life-continuity'. Its opposites are ''apuñña'' (demerit) or ''papa'' ('infertile, barren, harmful, bringing ill fortune'), of which the term papa has become most common. The term , originally a Christian term, has in the latter part of the twentieth century gradually been used as a translation of the Buddhist term puñña or puñña. The Buddhist term has, however, more of an

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