avaivartika (2289)

avaivartika
Entry 2289, Page 79, Col. 1

(avEvartika, avEvartika)
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.