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    Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

    ☞ p. 69, col. 2.
    avakubja and °jaka, adj. (= Pali avakujja, cf. AMg.

    avaujjiya, denom. ppp.; from ava and kubja), prone,

    flat on the face on the ground: in Mv i.213.7 = ii.16.11 na

    ca avakubjako (ii.16.11 mss. avakubjaṃ, may be kept as

    adv.; sc. tiṣṭhati; said of the Bodhisattva in his mother's

    womb); otherwise only with a form of prapatati, falls,

    and only as adj.: °ja LV 254.21; 256.3; Mv i.28.13; °jaka

    Mv ii.126.6; 127.11; 128.15; 130.1; 283.1; 412.16. In two

    of these Senart erroneously apa° with one of his two

    mss.; read ava° with the other.