आदि _ādi

आदि a.

1 First, primary, primitive; निदानं त्वादिकारणम् Ak.

-2 Chief, first, principal, pre-eminent; oft. at the end of comp. in this sense; see below.

-3 First in time existing before.

-दीः 1 Beginning, commencement (opp. अन्त); अप एव ससर्जादौ तासु बीजमवासृजत् Ms.1.8; Bg.3.41; अनादि &c.; जगदादिरनादिस्त्वम् Ku.2.9; oft. at the end of comp. and translated by 'beginning with', 'et cætera', 'and others', 'and so on' (of the same nature or kind), 'such like'; इन्द्रादयो देवाः the gods Indra and others (इन्द्रः आदिर्येषां ते); एवमादि this and the like; भ्वादयो धातवः भू and others, or words beginning with भू, are called roots; oft. used by Pāṇini to denote classes or groups of grammatical words; अदादि, दिवादि, स्वादि &c.

-2 First part of portion.

-3 A firstling, first-fruits.

-4 Prime cause.

-5 Nearness.

-6 One of the seven parts of Sāma; अथ सप्तविधस्य वाचि सप्तविधं सामोपासीत यत्किंच वाचो हुमिति स हिंकारो यत्प्रेति स प्रस्तावो यदेति स आदिः Ch. Up.2.8.1.

-Comp. -अन्त a.

1 having beginning and end.

-2 first and last. (

-तम्) beginning and end. -˚यमकम् N. of a figure in poetry. cf. Bk.1.21. ˚वत् having beginning and end, finite. ˚अन्तर्वर्तिन् a. having a beginning, end and middle; being all-in-all.

-उदात्त a. having the acute accent on the first syllable.

-उपान्तम् ind. from first to last.

-करः, -कर्तृ, -कृत् m. the creator, an epithet of Brahmā or Viṣnu; गरीयसे ब्रह्मणो$प्यादिकर्त्रे Bg.11.37; विशेषणे द्वे य इहादिकर्तुर्वदेदधीती स हि कैयटीयः Śab. Kau.

-कर्मन् n. the beginning of an action.

-कविः 'the first poet', an epi- thet of Brahmā and of Vālmīki; the former is so called because he first produced and promulgated the Vedas; (तेने ब्रह्म हृदा य आदिकवये मुह्यन्ति यत्सूरयः Bhāg.1.1.1.) and the latter, because he was the first to show to others 'the path of poets'; when he beheld one of a pair of Krauñcha birds being killed by a fowler, he cursed the wretch, and his grief unconsciously took the form of a verse (श्लोकत्वमापद्यत यस्य शोकः); he was sub- sequently told by Brahmā to compose the life of Rāma, and he thus gave to the world the first poem in Sanskrit, the Rāmāyaṇa; cf. U.2. Viṣkambhaka.

-काण्डम् the first book of the Rāmāyaṇa.

-कारणम् the first or primary cause (of the universe), which, according to the Vedāntins, is Brahman; while, according to the Naiyāyikas and particalarly the Vaiśeṣikas, atoms are the first or material cause of the universe, and not God.

-2 analysis.

-3 algebra.

-काव्यम् the first poem; i. e. the Rāmāyaṇa; see आदिकवि.

-केशवः N. of Viṣṇu.

-जिनः N. of Ṛiṣabha, the first तीर्थंकर.

-तालः a sort of musical time or ताल; एक एव लघुर्यत्र आदितालः स कथ्यते.

-दीपकम् N. of a figure in rhetoric (the verb standing at the beginning of the sentence). cf. Bk.1.23.

-देवः 1 the first or Supreme God; पुरुषं शाश्वतं दिव्यं आदिदेव- मजं विभुम् Bg.1.12,11.38.

-2 Nārāyaṇa or Viṣṇu.

-3 Śiva.

-4 Brahmā; Mb.12.188.2.

-5 the sun.

-दैत्यः an epithet of Hiraṇyakaśipu.

-नाथः N. of Ādibuddha.

-पर्वन् n. 'the first section or chapter', N. of the first book of the Mahābhārata.

-पुराणम् the first Purāṇa, N. of the Brahma-Purāṇa. N. of a Jaina religious book.

-पु (पू) रुषः 1 the first or primeval being, the lord of the creation.

-2 Viṣṇu, Kṛiṣṇa, or Nārāyaṇa; ते च प्रापुरुदन्वन्तं बुबुधे चादिपूरुषः R.1.6; तमर्घ्यमर्घ्यादिकयादिपूरुषः Śi.1.14.

-बलम् genera- tive power; first vigour.

-बुद्ध a. perceived in the beginning. (

-द्धः) the primitive Buddha.

-भव, -भूत a. produced at first.

(-वः, -तः) 1 'the first-born', primeval being, an epithet of Brahmā; इत्युक्त्वादिभवो देवः Bhāg.7.3.22.

-2 also N. of Viṣṇu; रसातलादादि. भवेन पुंसा R.13.8.

-3 an elder brother. (

-तम्) minute five elements (पञ्चमहाभूतानि); नष्टे लोके द्विपरार्धावसाने महा- भूतेष्वादिभूतं गतेषु Bhāg.1.3.25.

-मूलम् first founda- tion, primeval cause.

-योगाचार्यः 'the first teacher of devotion', an epithet of Śiva.

-रसः the first of he 8 Rasas, i. e. शृङ्गार or love.

-राजः the first king पृथु; an epithet of Manu.

-रूपम् Symptom (of disease).

-वंशः primeval race, primitive family.

-वराहः 'the first boar', an epithet of Visṇu, alluding to his third or boar-incarnation.

-विद्वस् m. the first learned man; कपिल.

-विपुला f. N. of an Āryā metre.

-वृक्षः N. of a plant (Mar. आपटा).

-शक्तिः f.

1 the power of माया or illusion.

-2 an epithet of Durgā.

-शरीरम् 1. the primitive body.

-2 ignorance.

-3 the subtle body.

-सर्गः the first creation.