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ācāryān

ācarya mfn. to be approached, Pāṇ. iii, 1, 100 Comm.

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What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. ācarya

ācarya mfn. to be approached, Pāṇ. iii, 1, 100 Comm.

2. ācārya

ācārya m. ‘knowing or teaching the ācāra or rules’, a spiritual guide or teacher (especially one who invests the student with the sacrificial thread, and instructs him in the Veda s, in the law of sacrifice and religious mysteries [ Mn. ii, 140 ; 171 ]), AV. ; ŚBr. &c.

3. ācārya

(also) the son of an outcast Vaiśya and a Vaiśyā who was before a Brāhman 's wife, Mn. x, 23 ( accord. to some, read cārya)

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.