AcAraH [ Acar-BAve GaY ] 1 Conduct, behaviour, manner of action or of conducting oneself; sadAcAraH good conduct; nIca° &c.; lokAcAravivarjitAH Pt. 5. 40 ignorant of the ways of the world. 2 Good conduct or behaviour; Bg. 16. 7 ; Ms. 1. 109 , 5. 4 , 3. 165. 3 A custom, usage, practice; tasmindeSe ya AcAraH pAraMparyakramAgataH Ms. 2. 18 ; Y. 1. 342. 4 An established usage, fixed rule of conduct in life, customary law, institute or precept ( opp. vyavahAra in law); AcArya AcArARAM K. 56 ; Ms. 1. 109 ; oft. as the first member of comp. in the sense of ‘customary’, ‘usual’, ‘as is the custom’, ‘according to form’, ‘as a formality’; °puzpagrahaRArTaM M. 4 ; see °DUma, °lAja below; °parikarman Ś. 2. 5 ( a ) Any customary observance or duty; °prayataH V. 3. 2 ; gfhAcAravyapadeSena U. 3. ( b ) A form, formality; AcAra ityavahitena mayA gfhItA Ś. 5. 3 ; Mv. 3. 26. ( c ) The customary salutation or bow, usual formality; AcAraM pratipadyasva Ś. 4 ; V. 2 ; avizayastAvadAcArasya Mv. 2. 6 Diet. 7 A rule (of conduct). Comp. — aMgaM title of the first twelve sacred books of the Jainas. — taMtraM one of the four classes of the Tantras (with Buddhists). — dIpaH [ AcArArTaH nIrAjanArTo dIpaH ] 1 ‘a lamp of religious customs’, title of a work. 2 a lamp waved about a person as a formality and token of auspiciousness. — DUmagrahaRaM inhaling smoke as a customary rite (as of the sacrificial ceremony); R. 7. 27 ; Ku. 7. 82. — pUta a. purified by customary observances, of pure conduct; R. 2. 13. — BedaH difference in the customary law. — Brazwa, -patita a. apostate, fallen from established usages or rules of conduct. — lAja ( m. pl. ) fried grain customarily showered upon a king or other important personage as a mark of respect (as when he passes through the streets of his capital); R. 2. 10. — varjita , — hIna a. 1 irregular, out of rule. 2 outcast, who has renounced all customary observances. — vedI [ AcArasya vedIva ] ‘altar of religious customs’, N. of Āryāvarta, the sacred region of the Āryas.