…pada⁴

Padaka²

neuter = pada 3, viz. basis, principle or pada 4, viz. stanza,…

adjective noun

1. having a foot or basis Vin.ii.110 (a˚); Snp.205; Thag-a.78.
2. fundamental pādakaṃ karoti to take as a base or foundation Vism.667.
3. (nt.) basis, foundation, base Pv-a.167. *p …

An epithet meaning the most beautiful woman in the land. It was used for the former wife of Nanda, the memory of whose beauty tormented him while he was a monk. Ud.iii.2

cross weaving; a darn (in appearance like a checkered board)

arranged in an aṭṭhapada, plaited eightfold

having four feet.

1. (n.) something to step on after washing one’s feet.
2. (mfn.) with washed feet; requiring clean feet.

having two feet, a biped.

supported on a block (like a threshold stone) or with feet shape like those of a ram.

the most beautiful girl in a country.

or neuter a timber footing or support or buttress.

with carved feet

with carved feet

with removable or insertable legs.

(-ikā)n. (from āpādeti) bringing up, taking care of nurturing; (f.) a nurse, a foster-mother.

Foundation: nissaya one of the 24 conditions paccaya,. Wrong f. of morality, see: nissaya f. of sympathy: sangaha-vatthu f. f orming absorptions: pādaka-jjhāna, - f. o …

Jhāna: ‘absorption’ meditation refers chiefly to the four meditative absorptions of the fine-material sphere rūpa-jjhāna or rūpāvacara - jjhāna avacara They are achieved through the att …

Pādaka-jjhāna: ‘foundation-forming absorption’, is an absorption used as a foundation, or starting point, for the higher spiritual powers abhiññā, or for insight vipassanā, leading to the su …

adjective not having feet, footless, creeping, epithet of snakes & fishes Vin.ii.110 = Ja.ii.146 (where see expl^n.). Spelt apada(ka) at Iti.87 (variant reading apāda).

a + pāda + ka

…= cross-plaiting).

• -padaka a small square (1/8), i.e. a patch Vin.i.297; Vin.ii.150.
• -pāda an…

base of numeral four

1. As num. adj. nom. & acc. m cattāro (Dhp.109; Ja.iii.51) and caturo (Snp.84, Snp.188), f. catasso (Snp.1122), nt. cattāri (Snp.227); gen. m. catunnaṃ (Snp.p.102), (f. catassa …

number two.

A. Meanings

I. Two as unit

1. with objective foundation:
   1. denoting a combination (pair, couple) or a repetition (twice). In this conn. frequent both objective …

Eḷaka¹

a threshold (see Morris, J.P.T.S. 1887, 146) Vin.ii.149 (˚pādaka-pītha, why not “having feet resembling those of a ram”? Cp. Vin Texts iii.165 “a chair raised on a pedestal”); DN …

…AN.iv.102; Mil.287; also -padaka AN.iii.188 variant reading; DN-a.i.283; -pariṇāyaka leader of the cows, epithet…

adjective pondering over (c. acc.) intent on: meditative, self-concentrated, engaged in jhāna-practice Vin.ii.75; SN.i.46 = SN.i.52; SN.ii.284; MN.i.334; AN.i.24; AN.iii.355; AN.iv.426; AN.v.156, AN …

pādaka “buttresses of timber” (Vin. Texts iii.174) Vin.ii.152 (cp. Bdhgh. p. 321 and also Morris J.P.T.S. 1884, 78).

crab, in kulīra- pādaka “a crab-footer,” i.e. a (sort of) bedstead Vin.ii.149; Vin.iv.40 (kulira), cp. Bdhgh on latter passage at Vin.iv.357 (kuḷira˚ and kuḷiya˚): a bedstead wit …

adjective noun

1. (adj.) red: rarely by itself (e.g. MN.ii.17), usually in compounds e.g. -abhijāti the red species (q.v.) AN.iii.383; -kasiṇa the artifice of red DN.iii.268; AN.i.41; Dhs.203; …

couch, bed Vin.iv.39, Vin.iv.40 (where 4 kinds are mentioned which also apply to the defⁿ of pīṭha, viz. masāraka bundikābaddha, kuḷīra-pādaka, āhacca-pādaka; same def< …

adjective consisting of feet or parts, -fold; dvādasa˚ twelve fold Ja.i.75 (paccayākāra).

fr. pada 1; cp. padaka³

see *pāli*˚.

the supporter (of a bed) Vin.i.48; Vin.ii.208.

fr. paṭi + pad

adjective nourishing, feeding AN.i.62, AN.i.132 = Iti.110 (āpādaka +); f. -ikā a nurse, a female attendant Vin.ii.289 (āpādikā +).

fr. posa²

little foot Ja.vi.554.

= pādaka

adjective belonging to the 1^st day of the lunar fortnight; only with ref. to bhatta (food & in combⁿ with pakkhika & uposathika, i.e. food given on the half- …

seat, chair, stool, bench.

4 kinds are given at Vin.iv.40 = Vin.iv.168, viz. masāraka bundikābaddha, kuḷirapādaka, āhaccapādaka (same categories as given under mañca)
■ Vin.i.47, Vin.i.180 Vin.ii …

one who obtains Mil.349.

fr. sampādeti

(rohiccasarabhā migā = rohitā sarabhamigā, C. ibid. 538) Sarabhamigajātaka the 483rd Jātaka Ja.i.193, Ja.i.406 (text sarabhanga); Ja.iv.263 sq.

• -pallaṅka “antelope-couch,” a …

adjective (-˚) producing, generating Pv-a.13 (dukkh˚). f. -ikā Dhp-a.iv.109 (jhān’).

fr. uppāda²

Āhacca¹

ger. of āhanati.

Āhacca²

adjective

1. (cp. āharati¹) to be removed, removable, in -pādaka-pīṭha & ˚mañca; a collapsible bed or cha …

in ˚jjhāyin Cnd.342#2 is read āpādaka˚; at Mnd.226, and āpātaka˚ at Vism.26.

adjective noun

1. (adj.) producing, leading to (-˚) Vv-a.4 (abhiññ˚ catuttha-jjhāna).
2. (n.) one who takes care of a child, a protector, guardian AN.i.62 = AN.i.132 = Iti.110 (+ posaka)
   ■ f …