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Pāda is theSanskrit term for "foot"[1] (cognate to Englishfoot, Latinpes, Greekpous), with derived meanings "step, stride; footprint, trace; vestige, mark".The term has a wide range of applications, including any one of four parts (as it were, one foot of a quadruped), or any sub-division more generally, e.g. a chapter of a book (originally a section of a book divided in four parts).
InSanskrit metre,pāda is the term for a quarter of a stanza. Thus in theshloka it is any of the eight-syllable sections of the 32-syllable stanza.
As a measure of length, apada amounts to 12 or 15 fingers' breadth, or 1/2 or 1/3 or 3/7 of aPrakrama.
InSanskrit grammar, apada is any inflected word (noun or verb).
InBuddhism,pāda is the term for aBuddha footprint.Gautama Buddha's footprints symbolized his presence, and his image andiconography developed several centuries after he had died. There are also several landmarks venerated as "footprints" (pāda, alsopādamudrā) ofHindu deities. For example,Si Pada onAdam's Peak is a rock formation inSri Lanka venerated as the footprint of Buddha in Buddhist tradition, the footprint ofShiva inHinduism, and the footprint ofAdam in Muslim tradition.
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