ASTI VERA, Armando. Buenos Aires 25.6.1914 — Buenos Aires 3.2.1972. Argentinian scholar of Religion. Ph.D. 1939 Buenos Aires, in philosophy, then taught at several Argentinian universities. Founder (in the late 1960s) and director of the Centro de Estudios de Religiones y Filosofías del Oriente in the Departe­mento de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Started in 1970 teaching Sanskrit there.

Publications: Books on philosophy, but not much directly connected with India (an article “La estética de Plotino y del Hinduism”, but details are missing).

Sources: Tola 1982; athenaica.com with small photo; *F. García Bazán, Stromata 28, 1972, 261-270.