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Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

ābhujati : (ā + bhuj + a) bends; coils; contracts.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Ābhujati, (ā + bhujati, bhuj¹) to bend, bend towards or in, contract; usually in phrase pallaṅkaṃ ā° “to bend in the round lap” or “bend in hookwise”, to sit crosslegged (as a devotee with straightened back), e. g. at Vin.I, 24; D.I, 71; M.I, 56 (v. l. ābhuñjitvā), 219; A.III, 320; Pug.68; Ps.I, 176; J.I, 71, 213; Miln.289; DA.I, 58, 210. In other connection J.I, 18 (V.101; of the ocean “to recede”); Miln.253 (kāyaṃ). (Page 103)

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Ābhujati (आभुजति).—or also ābhuñjati, recorded only in ger. forms with object paryaṅkam (= Pali pallaṅkam ābhuj-; Sanskrit seems to have used badhnāti instead, but [Boehtlingk and Roth], [Boehtlingk] record only noun cpds. such as paryaṅka-bandha; [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] also uses forms of bandhati, as paryaṅka bandhitvă Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 23.11 (verse); a theory of the orig. meaning in [Boehtlingk and Roth] which is not repeated in [Boehtlingk]; for other theories see [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] s.vv. ābhujati, pallaṅka), having assumed a sitting posture with the legs doubled under the buttocks; in prose of all texts except Mahāvastu, only paryaṅkam ābhujya: Mahāvyutpatti 6283; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 5.9 (here Kashgar recension baddhvā, compare above); 19.13; 409.9; Lalitavistara 59.22; 244.18; 251.4; 289.16; 410.8; Divyāvadāna 20.17; 162.12; 294.3, etc.; in verses, °kam ābhujiya Lalitavistara 133.20; °kam ābhujitvā 259.5; in prose of Mahāvastu °kam ābhuñjitvā i.144.11; ii.131.15, also v.l. ii.268.4 where Senart ābhujitvā; the latter is a v.l. for text ābhuṃj° ii.16.12 (= i.213.8, mss. corrupt); ābhuṃjitvāna mss. at iii.245.2 (verse, bad meter).

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Full-text: Abhuji, Abhujana, Pallanka.

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