anATa a. [ na . ba .] Helpless, poor, forlorn, parentless, orphan (as a child); widowed (as a wife); having no master or natural protector, without a protector in general; nATavaMtastvayA lokAstvamanATA vipatsyase U. 1. 43 ; R. 12. 12. — TaM Ved. Helplessness. Comp. — piMqadaH, -piMqikaH ‘giver of food to the poor,’ N. of a merchant in whose garden Buddha Gautama used to instruct his pupils. — saBA a poorhouse.