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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAprativartiya (अप्रतिवर्तिय).—(a-prativartiya) (semi-MIndic for °tya; = Pali ap-paṭivattiya), not to be turned back (by any creature; said of the dharmacakra, once set in motion by a Buddha): Mahāvastu iii.327.7 (verse, no v.l.); in Mahāvastu i.330.4 (prose) doubtless [Page048-a+ 71] read so with 1 ms., the other pravartayaṃ, Senart em. apravartiyaṃ; in Mahāvastu i.331.4 Senart with mss. apravartiyaṃ, in 332.7 apravartitaṃ, which is read in the same formula Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 179.1 (prose, no v.l.); in Mahāvastu i.332.21 aparivartitaṃ, in 333.12 apravartiyaṃ, v.l. aparivartiya. In Pali ap- parently 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 [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] 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.
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