--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > The basic meaning of the noun 'aadi' in Sanskrit seems > to be 'beginning': > > Adi m. beginning , commencement ; a firstling , first-fruits ;... > > At the end of a compound (ifc: in fine compositi?) it often corresponds to > the expression 'etc': >
In that meaning, 'aadi' seems to appear at least in the following suutras of YS: maitryaadiSu balaani (III 23) (maitrii + aadi_Su balaani -- locative plural) baleSu hastibalaadiini .. 24.. (baleSu hasti-bala + aadi_ini -- nominative plural) udaanajayaajjalapaN^kakaNTakaadiSvasaN^ga utkraantishcha .. 39.. (udaana-jayaat; jala-paN^ka-kaNTaka + aadi_Su + asaN^gaH; utkraantiH; cha -- locative plural) tato.aNimaadipraadurbhaavaH kaayasampat taddharmaanabhighaatashcha .. 45. (tataH; aNima + aadi-praadurbhaavaH [...] -- nominative singular) In its "original" meaning 'aadi' "appears" at least in IV 10, as a part of an abstract noun with a negative prefix: taasaam anaaditvaM chaashiSho nityatvaat .. 10.. (taasaam an_aadi_tvam [...])
