(or ādu) indeclinable part. of affirmation: even, yea, nay; always in emphatic exclamations Vv.62#2 (= udāhu Vv-a.258 variant reading SS. ādu) = Pv.iv.3#17 (ādu) = Dhp-a.i.31 (T. ādu variant reading adu); Vv.63#1 (variant reading ādu); Ja.v.330 (T. ādu, C. adu expl^d. on p. 331 fantastically as aduñ ca aduñ ca kammaṃ karohī ti). See also ādu.

perhaps identical with aduṃ, nt. of pron. asu