padma
padma (paduma) , m. or nt. , ( 1 ) n. of a kind of brahmanical sacrifice: Mv ii.237.20 (prose) padumaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ (this occurs in Skt. in this sense) ca, in a list of sacrifices, see nirargaḍa ; ( 2 ) m. (paduma), n. of one of the 4 ‘great treasures’ ( cf. Pali puṇḍarīka; see s.v. elapatra ): Mv iii.383.19 (known in Skt. as n. of a nāga); ( 3 ) n. of a former Buddha (Paduma): Mv iii.233.7 f. ; ( 4 ) n. of the world-age (paduma kalpa) in which 62 Buddhas named Śikhin succeeded each other: Mv iii.235.6 ; ( 5 ) nt. , also m. , n. of a hell (= Pali Paduma; cf. Mahāpadma ): Divy 67.23 ; 138.8 ; Av i.4.9 etc. ; it is cold acc. to Mvy 4935 ; Dharmas 122 , but hot (at least sufferers are boiled there) in Śikṣ 75.8 , where (and in 10) the spelling is Padumo, n. sg. , tho in prose!; ( 6 ) nt. , n. of a cetika (caitya) in the south: LV 389.10 ; in the parallel Mv iii.307.17 Abhipaśya ; Pali has Paduma as n. of a cetiya ( DPPN s.v. 8), but it is not clear whether it is the same.