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ādi

m. beginning, commencement

a firstling, first-fruits

ifc. beginning with, et caetera, and so on (e.g. indrādayaḥ surāḥ, the gods beginning with Indra i.e. Indra &c.; gṛhādiyukta, possessed of houses &c.; evamādīni vastūni, such things and others of the same kind: śayyā khaṭvādiḥ [Comm. on [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 99]], Śayyā means a bed &c.; often with -ka at the end, e.g. dānadharmādikam [[Hit.]], liberality, justice, &c.)

the third part in the 7-partite Sāman, [ChUp.]

mfn. beginning with ā, [RāmatUp.]