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Formed from the accusative singular पादम् (pādam) of पद् (pád).


पाद (pā́dam

  1. the foot (of men and animals)
  2. the foot or leg of an inanimate object, column, pillar
  3. wheel
  4. a foot as a measure
  5. the foot or root of a tree
  6. the foot or a hill at the foot of a mountain
  7. bottom
  8. a ray or beam of light (considered as the foot of a heavenly body)
  9. quarter, fourth Part (the fourth of a quadruped being one out of 4)
  10. quadrant (of a circle)
  11. a verse or line (as the fourth part of a regular stanza)
  12. the caesura of a verse agni-purāṇa, the chapter of a book