AdIkaroti
ādīkaroti (see s.v. ādi ), starts from ( acc. ), makes the starting point : ger. °kariyāṇa, SP 192.1 ( vs ) avidya ( acc. ) ādīkariyāṇa cakṣumān, prabhāṣate maraṇam anantaduḥkham (so apparently mss. , combining the note to KN ed. with that to Kernʼs Transl. SBE 21.185 ), starting with ignorance, the Enlightened One expounded death and infinite misery . This reading is perfect in meter and sense. Possibly ādī is to be taken as a separate word, = ādiṃ; certainly it means the same as ādiṃ kṛ-.