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    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 1317, col. 3.
    a-vaivartika mfn. never returning (for a new birth), Sukh. i.

    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 79, col. 1.
    avaivartika (perhaps the commonest BHS form of

    many equivalents; see also avaivarta, °tya, and s.vv.

    anivart(i)ya, avivart(i)ya, avinivartya), not liable to

    turning back: regularly of Bodhisattvas (usually this

    word being used; if not, of persons firmly set on the road

    to enlightenment, which is the same thing): SP 2.11;

    264.12; 383.2; LV 23.2; 39.14; 181.6; 370.2; Mv i.82.8;

    102.13; 104.8; 107.9, 12; 128.2, 6; Suv 81.8; 89.9; RP

    56.4; Gv 104.3; 308.8 etc.; Dbh 1.8; Sukh 21.13 etc.;

    °ka-bhūmi Kv 82.10; Bbh 235.17--18; °ka-dharma LV

    424.14 (here of the Tathāgata); Mv i.124.19; °ka-kṣānti-

    pratilabdha SP 259.13 (see kṣānti); °ka-dharmacakra-

    SP 270.9.