a-prativartiya (1387)

a-prativartiya
Entry 1387, Page 47, Col. 2

(aprativartiya, a-prativartiya)
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): Mv iii.327.7 (vs, no v.l.); in Mv i.330.4 (prose) doubtless [Page048-a+ 71] 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 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 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.

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