‹ Back to the text

hīnāyāvattanti

hīnāyāvattati

pr 3rd pl of hīnāyāvattati (verb)

1. reverts back to lay-life; returns to the secular world; lit. goes back to the low
2. goes backwards; backslides; degenerates; lit. goes back to the low

Etymology. hīnāya + āvattati; Sanskrit hīnāya + āvartati

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

Lite mode — plain HTML for e-readers and old browsers. Full version