1. Adi m. beginning, commencement
Adi a. 1 First, primary, primitive; nidAnaM tvAdikAraRaM Ak. 2 Chief, first, principal, pre-eminent; oft. at the end of comp. in this sense; see below. 3 First in time, existing before. — diH 1 Beginning, commencement ( opp. aMta ); apa eva sasarjAdO tAsu bIjamavAsfjat Ms. 1. 8 ; Bg. 3. 41 ; anAdi &c.; jagadAdiranAdistvaM 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’; iMdrAdayo devAH the gods Indra and others ( iMdraH AdiryezAM te ); evamAdi this and the like; BvAdayo DAtavaH BU and others, or words beginning with BU , are called roots; oft. used by Pāṇini to denote classes or groups of grammatical words; adAdi , divAdi, svAdi &c. 2 First part or portion. 3 A firstling, first-fruits. 4 Prime cause. 5 Nearness. Comp. — aMta a. 1 having beginning and end. 2 first and last. — (taM) beginning and end. °vat having beginning and end, finite. °aMtarvartin a. having a beginning, end and middle; being all-in-all. — udAtta a. having the acute accent on the first syllable. — upAMtaM ind. from first to last. — karaH, -kartf, -kft m. the creator, an epithet of Brahmā; Bg. 11. 37. — karman n. the beginning of an action. — kaviH ‘the first poet’, an epithet of Brahmā and of Vālmīki; the former is so called because he first produced and promulgated the Vedas; and the latter, because he was the first to show to others ‘the path of poets’; when he beheld one of a pair of Krauñca birds being killed by a fowler, he cursed the wretch, and his grief unconsciously took the form of a verse ( SlokatvamApadyata yasya SokaH ); he was subsequently 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 ( pb ) Viṣkambhaka. — kAMqaM the first book of the Rāmāyaṇa. — kAraRaM the first or primary cause (of the universe), which, according to the Vedāntins, is Brahma; while, according to the Naiyāyikas and particularly the Vaiśeṣikas, atoms are the first or material cause of the universe, and not God. 2 analysis. 3 algebra. — kAvyaM the first poem; i. e. the Rāmāyaṇa; see Adikavi . — tAlaH a sort of musical time or tAla; eka eva laGuryatra AditAlaH sa kaTyate . — devaH 1 the first or Supreme God; puruzaM SASvataM divyaM AdidevamajaM viBuM Bg. 10. 12 , 18. 38. 2 Nārāyaṇa or Viṣṇu. 3 Śiva. 4 the sun. — dEtyaH an epithet of Hiraṇyakaśipu. — parvan n. ‘the first section or chapter,’ N. of the first book of the Mahābhārata. — purARaM the first Purāṇa, N. of the Brahma Purāṇa. — pu(pU)ruzaH 1 the first or primeval being, the lord of the creation. 2 Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa, or Nārāyaṇa; te ca prApurudanvaMtaM bubuDe cAdipUruzaH R. 10. 6 ; tamarDyamarGyAdikayAdipUruzaH Śi. 1. 14. — balaM generative power; first vigour. — budDa a. perceived in the beginning. — (dDaH) the primitive Buddha. — Bava, -BUta a. produced at first. — (vaH, -taH) 1 ‘the firstborn’, primeval being, an epithet of Brahmā. 2 also N. of Viṣṇu; rasAtalAdAdiBavena puMsA R. 13. 8. 3 an elder brother. — mUlaM first foundation, primeval cause. — yogAcAryaH ‘the first teacher of devotion’, an epithet of Śiva. — rasaH the first of the 8 Rasas, i. e. SfMgAra or love. — rAjaH the first king pfTu ; an epithet of Manu. — vaMSaH primeval race, primitive family. — varAhaH ‘the first boar,’ an epithet of Viṣṇu, alluding to his third or boar-incarnation. — vidvas m. the first learned man; kapila . — SaktiH f. 1 the power of mAyA or illusion. 2 an epithet of Durgā. — SarIraM 1 the primitive body. 2 ignorance. 3 the subtle body. — sargaH the first creation.