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च्यवति (cyavati)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
cyavati, falls (to a lower existence)
in Skt. and, so far as I have found, in Pali (cavati) construed with abl. of the existence departed from
here sometimes with loc. instead, dies, passes away in …: SP 〔94.3 ff.〕 cyutvā manuṣyeṣu avīci teṣāṃ pratiṣṭha bhotī paripūrṇakalpān, (4) cyutāś ca tatra prapatanti (Kashgar rec. and WT with ms. cyutāś-cyutās tatra patanti) bālāḥ, (5) yadā ca narakeṣu (Kashgar rec. °kebhya) cyutā bhavanti …, having fallen (from existence, i.e. having died) among men, Avīci becomes their abode for full kalpas and having fallen (died) there, the fools fall (lower)
and when they come to fall (die) in (Kashgar, from) the hells