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प्रथम mfn. mf(आ॑)n. (for प्र-तम, superl. of 1.प्र; rarely declined as a pron. e.g. °म॑स्याः, [AV. vi, 18, 1] ; °मे, [PañcavBr. xxv, 18, 5] ; [R. iv, 37, 11] ; [Kir. ii, 44] ; cf. [Pāṇ. 1-1, 33] ) foremost, first (in time or in a series or in rank) earliest, primary, original, prior, former preceding, initial, chief, principal, most excellent, [RV.] &c. &c. अम् n. often translatable adverbially = ibc. (cf. below) and (ind.) firstly, at first, for the first time आत् just, newly, at once, forthwith (also , [Hariv.] ) अम् formerly, previously ( also as prep. with gen. = before, e.g. [Mn. ii, 194] ; प्रथमम्-अनन्तरम् or पश्चात्, first—afterwards; प्रथमम्-ततस्, first—next) प्रथम m. m. (in gram., scil. वर्ण), the first consonant of a वर्ग, a surd unaspirate letter पुरुष (scil. ), the first (= our 3rd) person or its terminations स्वर (scil. ), the first tone in math. the sum of the products divided by the difference between the squares of the cosine of the azimuth and the sine of the amplitude
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