आचार्य [ ācārya ] [ 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 ( Lit. Mn. ii , 140 ; 171 ) ) Lit. AV. Lit. ŚBr.

  a N. of Droṇa (the teacher of the Pāṇḍavas) Lit. Bhag. i , 2

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

  [ ācāryā ] f. a spiritual preceptress Lit. Pāṇ. 4-1 , 49 Lit. Siddh. ( The title [ ācārya ] affixed to names of learned men is rather like our " Dr. " ; e.g. [ rāghavācārya ] , )