Meaning of the Sanskrit Word: adau

  adau—in the beginning    Bg 3.41, Bg 4.4, SB 1.3.1, SB 3.11.35, SB. 6.1.1, SB 6.4.49, SB 6.4.50, SB 6.4.49-50, SB 6.16.36, SB 6.18.30, SB 7.15.57, Madhya 11.78 (and more...)
  adau—in the beginning (the Second and Third Cantos)    SB 5.26.38
  adau—at first    SB 2.7.5
  adau—in the beginning of creation    SB 4.17.31
  adau—original in the creative energy of matter    SB 3.9.2
  adau—originally    Adi 5.84
  adau—first    Madhya 20.379

Compound Sanskrit Words Containing: adau

  sravana-adau—in the matter of sravanam, kirtanam, and so on    Madhya 9.266, Madhya 22.61
  arca-adau—beginning with worship of the Deity    SB 3.29.25
  arca-adau—in worship of the Deity and so on    SB 3.29.9
  bhuta-adau—in the false ego, the origin of material existence    SB 9.7.25, SB 9.7.26, SB 9.7.25-26
  dautya-adau—the duty of a messenger, etc.    SB 1.17.17
  deha-adau—in the body and things related to the body    SB 6.2.38
  deha-adau—identifying oneself with the material body and then with one's wife, children, family, community, nation and so on    SB 7.7.19, SB 7.7.20, SB 7.7.19-20
  jala-adau api—water and other reflecting mediums    SB 4.22.29
  janma-adau—creation and destruction    SB 2.10.45
  jihva-adau—beginning with the tongue    Madhya 17.136
  krta-adau—at the beginning of the next Satya-yuga    SB 9.22.18, SB 9.22.19, SB 9.22.18-19
  mat-katha-adau—in talk about Me    Madhya 22.50
  sarga-adau—in the creation, etc.    SB 6.12.11
  sarga-adau—in the matter of creation, maintenance and destruction    SB 2.6.31
  valkala-adau—skins of trees    SB 2.2.4