آد

आद ād (and ādh), = S آد आिद ādi, s.m. (f. ?) & adj. Beginning, commencement, startingpoint; original;—first, prior, primary; primeval; pre-eminent; (often at the end of a compound in the sense) beginning with, et cetera, and so forth, and so on, onwards, etc. (e.g. manushyādi jantu, 'man and the other animals'; ek-ād [or -ādh], one or so):—ād-ant, ādyant, s.m. The first and the last; the beginning and the end;—adv. From first to last; from beginning to end; from head to foot, throughout; without cessation or intermission, incessantly, always:—ādi-bhāg, s.m. The Old Testament (opposed to antabhāg):—ādi-purush, s.m. The first male or progenitor (usually applied to Vishnu); the primeval spirit:—ādi-se, From the beginning; and so forth:—ād-se ant-tak, adv.=ād-ant, q.v.:—ādi-śikshā, s.f. Primary or elementary instruction:—ādi-kāran, s.m. Primary cause:—ādyant = ādant, q.v.