Pāli Dictionary

hīnāyāvattati

hīnāyastemāprefixvatroot

Part of speech

verb

Antonyms

abhiharati

monastic

  • reverts to lay life; returns to the secular/inferior state; backslides

  • AN 4.122

    so kupito anattamano sikkhaṃ paccakkhāya hīnāy'āvattati. ayaṃ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ūmibhayassa bhīto sikkhaṃ paccakkhāya hīnāy'āvatto.

  • DN 25

    yato kho, nigrodha, tapassī cātuyāmasaṃvarasaṃvuto hoti, aduṃ c'assa hoti tapassitāya. so abhiharati no hīnāy'āvattati.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

hīnāyāvattāiti
  1. hīnāyāvattāhīnāyāvatta

    reverted back to lay life; returned to the secular world

  2. iti

    thus; in this way; so; like this

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