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अप्रतिवर्तिय (aprativartiya)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
a-prativartiya (semi-MIndic for °tya
= Pali appaṭivattiya), not to be turned back (by any creature
said of the dharmacakra, once set in motion by a Buddha): Mv 〔iii.327.7〕 (vs, no v.l.)
in Mv 〔i.330.4〕 (prose) doubtless [Page048-a] read so with 1 ms., the other pravartayaṃ, Senart em. apravartiyaṃ
in Mv 〔i.331.4〕 Senart with mss. apravartiyaṃ, in 〔332.7〕 apravartitaṃ, which is read in the same formula SP 〔179.1〕 (prose, no v.l.)
in Mv 〔i.332.21〕 aparivartitaṃ, in 〔333.12〕 apravartiyaṃ, v.l. aparivartiya. In Pali apparently only appaṭi° occurs, and I believe this must have been the original reading. No being could turn back the wheel started by the Buddha. But evidently in BHS tradition this became confused with forms (ppp. as well as gdve.) of pra-, pari-vṛt-, which of course also yield a tolerable sense: which had never been set in motion or could not be set in motion by any (other) being.