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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryAvakubja (अवकुब्ज).—and °jaka, adj. (= Pali avakujja, compare AMg. avaujjiya, denom. ppp.; from ava and kubja), prone, flat on the face on the ground: in Mahāvastu i.213.7 = ii.16.11 na ca avakubjako (ii.16.11 mss. avakubjaṃ, may be kept as adv.; sc. tiṣṭhati; said of the Bodhisattva in his mother's womb); otherwise only with a form of prapatati, falls, and only as adj.: °ja Lalitavistara 254.21; 256.3; Mahāvastu i.28.13; °jaka [Page070-a+ 71] Mahāvastu ii.126.6; 127.11; 128.15; 130.1; 283.1; 412.16. In two of these Senart erroneously apa° with one of his two mss.; read ava° with the other.
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