Prathamā | "the first"

Prathama

Prathamā (IAST)
Translation: "the first"
From Mandukya Upanishad (Verses 3, 9)

A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Monier-Williams)
Sanskrit: प्रथमा
Transliteration: Prathamā

Translation: "foremost, first (in time or in a series or in rank; earliest, primary, original, prior, former; preceding, initial, chief, principal, most excellent"

Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads (Swami Sharvananda)
Sanskrit: प्रथमा
Transliteration: Prathamā
Translation: "the first"


References:

1. Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press
2. Sharvananda, Swami (1920). Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads: With Sanskrit Text; Paraphrase with Word-For-Word Literal Translation, English, Rendering and Comments. Mylapore, Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math