Vattavivatta, Vaṭṭavivaṭṭa, Vatta-vivatta: 1 definition
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Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryVaṭṭavivaṭṭa refers to: (1) evolving and devolving; going round and back again, i.e. all round (a formation after the manner of reduplicative cpds. like cuṇṇa-vicuṇṇa in intensive-iterative meaning), °vasena in direct and inverse succession, all round, completely J. I, 75. Cp. also vatta-paṭivatta.—(2) saṃsāra in ascending and descending lines, evolution (“involution”) and devolution, or one round of trans‹-› migration and the other. It is dogmatically defined at Nett 113 as “vaṭṭaṃ saṃsāro vivaṭṭaṃ nibbānaṃ” (similarly, opposed to vaṭṭa at DA. I, 126) which is however not the general meaning, the vivaṭṭa not necessarily meaning a nibbāna stage. See SnA 106 (quoted above); VvA. 68. We have so far not found any passage where it might be interpreted in the comprehensive sense as meaning “the total round of existences, “ after the fashion of cpds. like bhavâbhava.
Note: vaṭṭavivaṭṭa is a Pali compound consisting of the words vaṭṭa and vivaṭṭa.
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.
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