अध्वर्यु

Sanskrit edit

अध्वर्यु • (adhvaryú) stem, m

one who institutes an अध्वर (adhvara)
any officiating priest
a priest of a particular class (as distinguished from the होतृ (hotṛ), the उद्गातृ (udgātṛ), and the ब्रह्मन् (brahman) classes. The adhvaryu priests "had to measure the ground, to build the altar, to prepare the sacrificial vessels, to fetch wood and water, to light the fire, to bring the animal and immolate it"; whilst engaged in these duties, they had to repeat the hymns of the Yajurveda, hence that veda itself is also called adhvaryu)
(in the plural) the adherents of the Yajurveda

Masculine u-stem declension of अध्वर्यु (adhvaryú)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	अध्वर्युः adhvaryúḥ	अध्वर्यू adhvaryū́	अध्वर्यवः adhvaryávaḥ
Vocative	अध्वर्यो ádhvaryo	अध्वर्यू ádhvaryū	अध्वर्यवः ádhvaryavaḥ
Accusative	अध्वर्युम् adhvaryúm	अध्वर्यू adhvaryū́	अध्वर्यून् adhvaryū́n
Instrumental	अध्वर्युणा / अध्वर्य्वा¹ adhvaryúṇā / adhvaryvā́¹	अध्वर्युभ्याम् adhvaryúbhyām	अध्वर्युभिः adhvaryúbhiḥ
Dative	अध्वर्यवे adhvaryáve	अध्वर्युभ्याम् adhvaryúbhyām	अध्वर्युभ्यः adhvaryúbhyaḥ
Ablative	अध्वर्योः adhvaryóḥ	अध्वर्युभ्याम् adhvaryúbhyām	अध्वर्युभ्यः adhvaryúbhyaḥ
Genitive	अध्वर्योः adhvaryóḥ	अध्वर्य्वोः adhvaryvóḥ	अध्वर्यूणाम् adhvaryūṇā́m
Locative	अध्वर्यौ adhvaryaú	अध्वर्य्वोः adhvaryvóḥ	अध्वर्युषु adhvaryúṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

Monier Williams (1899) “अध्वर्यु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0024.