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Monier–Williams

आचार्य — {ācāryá} 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 Vedas, in the law of sacrifice and religious mysteries [ ii, 140 ; 171]) &c##a N. of Droṇa (the teacher of the Pāṇḍavas) i, 2##({ā}), f. a spiritual preceptress 4-1, 49 [The title {ācārya} affixed to names of learned men is rather like our 'Dr.'##e.g. {rāghavâcārya}, &c.]

आचार्य — {ācāryá}