ABujati
bend
Ābhujati [ā + bhujati, bhuj 1 ] 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; Pp 68; Paṭis I 176; Ja I 71, 213; Miln 289; Sv I 58, 210. In other connections Ja I 18 (V 101; of the ocean "to recede"); Miln 253 (kāyaṃ).
ābhujati , or also ābhuñjati , recorded only in ger. forms with object paryaṅkam (= Pali pallaṅkam ābhuj-; Skt. seems to have used badhnāti instead, but BR , pw record only noun cpds. such as paryaṅka-bandha; BHS also uses forms of bandhati, as paryaṅka bandhitvă SP 23.11 ( vs ); a theory of the orig. mg. in BR which is not repeated in pw ; for other theories see PTSD s.vv. ābhujati, pallaṅka), having assumed a sitting posture with the legs doubled under the buttocks ; in prose of all texts except Mv , only paryaṅkam ābhujya: Mvy 6283 ; SP 5.9 (here Kashgar rec. baddhvā, cf. above); 19.13 ; 409.9 ; LV 59.22 ; 244.18 ; 251.4 ; 289.16 ; 410.8 ; Divy 20.17 ; 162.12 ; 294.3 , etc. ; in vss , °kam ābhujiya LV 133.20 ; °kam ābhujitvā 259.5 ; in prose of Mv °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 ( vs , bad meter).
(pr, pr) bends, coils, contracts Construction: ā + bhuja + ti