padaM [ pad-ac ] 1 A foot (said to be m. also in this sense); padena on foot; SiKarizu padaM nyasya Me. 13 ; apaTe padamarpayaMti hi R. 9. 74 ‘set foot on (follow) a wrong road’; 3. 50 ; 12. 52 ; padaM hi sarvatra guROrniDIyate 3. 62 ‘good qualities set foot everywhere’; i. e. command notice or make themselves felt; janapeda na gadaH padamAdaDO 9. 4 ‘no disease stepped into the country’; yadavaDi na padaM daDAti citte Bv. 2. 14 ; padaM kf ( a ) to set foot in, on or over ( lit. ); SAMte karizyasi padaM punarASrame'smin Ś. 4. 19 ; ( b ) to enter upon or into, take possession of, occupy ( fig. ); kftaM vapuzi navayOvanena padaM K. 137 ; kftaM hi me kutUhalena praSnASayA hfdi padaM 133 ; so Ku. 5. 21 , Pt. 1. 240 ; kftvA pada no gale Mu. 3. 26 ‘in defiance of us,’ ( lit. planting his foot on our neck); mUrDni padaM kf ‘to mount on the head of’, ‘to humble’; Pt. 1. 327 ; AkftiviSezezvAdaraH padaM karoti M. 1 ‘good forms attract attention (command respect)’, jane saKI padaM kAritA Ś. 4 ‘made to ( pb ) have dealings with (to confide in); DarmeRa Sarve pArvatIM prati padaM kArite Ku. 6. 14. 2 A step, pace, stride; tanvI sTitA katicideva padAni gatvA Ś. 2. 12 ; pade pade ‘at every step’; akzamAlAmadatvA padAtpadamapi na gatavyaM or calitavyaM ‘do not move even a step’ &c.; pituH padaM maDyamamutpataMtI V. 1. 19 ‘the middle pace or stride of Viṣṇu’; i. e. the sky (for mythologically speaking, the earth, sky, and lower world are considered as the three paces of Viṣṇu in his fifth or dwarf incarnation); so aTAtmanaH SabdaguRaM guRajYaH padaM vimAnena vigAhamAnaH R. 13. 1. 3 A foot-step, foot-print, footmark; padapaMktiH Ś. 3. 8 ; or padAvalI foot-prints; padamanuviDeyaM ca mahatAM Bh. 2. 28. ‘the foot-steps of the great must be followed’; padErgfhyate cOraH Y. 2. 286. 4 A trace, mark, impression, vestige; rativalayapadAMke cApamAsajya kaMWe Ku. 2. 64 ; Me. 35 , 96 ; M. 3. 5 A place, position, station; aDoDaH padaM Bh. 2. 10 ; AtmA pariSramasya padamupanItaH Ś. 1 ‘brought to the point of or exposed to trouble’, tadalabDapadaM hfdi SokaGane R. 8. 91 ‘found no place in (left no impression on) the heart’; apade SaMkitosmi M. 1 , ‘my doubts were out of place’, i. e. groundless; kfSakuwuMbezu loBaH padamaDatta Dk. 162 ; Ku. 6. 72 , 3. 4 ; R. 2. 50 ; 9. 82 ; kftapadaM stanayugalaM U. 6. 35 ‘brought into relief or bursting forth’. 6 Dignity, rank, office, station or position; BagavatyA prASnikapadamaDyAsitavyaM M. 1 ; yAMtyevaM gfhiRIpadaM yuvatayaH Ś. 4. 17 ‘attain to the rank or position’ &c.; sTitA gfhiRIpade 4. 18 ; so saciva°, rAja° &c. 7 Cause, subject, occasion, thing, matter, business, affair; vyavahArapadaM hi tat Y. 2. 5 ‘occasion or matter of dispute, title of law, judicial proceeding’; Ms. 8. 7 ; satAM hi saMdehapadezu vastuzu Ś. 1. 22 ; vAMCitaPalaprApteH padaM Ratn. 1. 6. 8 Abode, object, receptacle: padaM dfSaH syAH kaTamISa mAdfSAM Śi. 1. 37 , 15. 22 ; agarIyAnna padaM nfpaSriyaH Ki. 2. 14 ; avivekaH paramApadAM padaM 2. 30 ; ke vA na syuH pariBavapadaM nizPalAraMBayatnAH Me. 54 ; H. 4. 69. 9 A quarter or line of a stanza, verse; virAcetapadaM (geyaM) Me. 86 ; 103 ; M. 5. 2 ; Ś. 3. 15. 10 A complete or inflected word; suptiMNaMtaM padaM ( pb ) P. I. 4. 14 ; varRAH padaM prayogArhAnanvitEkArTaboDakAH S. D. 9 ; R. 8. 77 ; Ku. 4. 9. 11 A name for the base of nouns before all consonantal case-terminations except nom. singular. 12 Detachment of the Vedic words from one another, separation of a Vedic text into its several constituent words. 13 A pretext; Śi. 7. 14. 14 A square root. 15 A part, portion or division (as of a sentence); as tripadA gAyatrI . 16 A measure of length. 17 Protection, preservation. 18 A square or house on a chessboard; azwApadapadAleKyEH Rām. 19 A quadrant. 20 The last of a series. 21 A plot of ground. 22 (In Arith). Any one in a set of numbers the sum of which is required. — daH A ray of light. Comp. — aMkaH, -cihnaM a foot-print. — aMguzWaH the great toe thumb (of the foot). — aDyayanaM study of the Vedas according to the padapAWa q. v. — anuga a. 1 following closely, being at the heels of ( gen. ). 2 suitable, agreeable to. — (gaH) a follower, companion. — anurAgaH 1 a servant. 2 an army. — anuSAsanaM the science of words, grammar. — anuzaMgaH anything added to a pada . — aMtaH 1 the end of a line of a stanza. 2 the end of a word. — aMtaraM another step, the interval of one step; padAMtare sTitvA Ś. 1 ; a° closely, without a pause. — aMtya a. final. — abjaM, -aMBojaM , — araviMdaM, -kamalaM, -paMkajaM, -padmaM a lotuslike foot. — arTaH 1 the meaning of a word. 2 a thing or object. 3 a head or topic (of which the Naiyāyikas enumerate 16 sub-heads). 4 anything which can be named ( aBiDeya ), a category or predicament; the number of such categories, according to the Vaiśeṣikas, is seven; according to the Sāṃkhyas, twentyfive (or twenty-seven according to the followers of Patañjali), and two according to the Vedāntins. 5 the sense of another word which is not expressed but has to b...