Padaka¹

adjective one who knows the padas (words or lines), versed in the padapāṭha of the Veda (Ep. of an educated Brahmin) DN.i.88 = Snp.p.105 (where Avs.ii.19 in id. p. has padaśo = P. …

…Thag-a.78. 2. fundamental pādakaṃ karoti to take as a base or foundation Vism.667. 3. (nt.) basis, foundation, base Pv-a.167….

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.

…nissaya f. of sympathy: sangaha-vatthu f. f orming absorptions: pādaka-jjhāna, - f. of an Arahat’s mentality: see:…

…the base or starting point pādaka - jhāna for the attaining of the higher spiritual powers abhiññā.

In the Abhidhamma, generally a…

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

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

Aṭṭha¹

num. card, eight, decl. like pl. of adj. in-a A. The number in objective significance, based on natural phenomena: see compounds ˚angula, ˚nakha, ˚pada, ˚pāda B. The number in …

…fourfold Vism.339. -(p)pādaka (adj.) consisting of 4 padas, i.e. a sloka; f. ˚ikā (gāthā) a complete stanza or sloka Anvs p. 35;…

…-pādaka = dvipad Vin.ii.110; -bandhu having two friends Ja.vi.281; -rattatiratta two or three…

…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…

, f.) a cow, an ox, bull, pl. cattle. For f. cp gāvī; see also *gava*˚ for cpds
■ Sg. nom. go (Snp.580 also in composition, cp. aja-go-mahisādi Pv-a.80 = pasū) gen. gavassa (MN.i. …

…Cnd.264; Vv.5#8; Pv.iv.1#32; Vb.342. Mnd.226 Cnd.342#2 = Vism.26 (āpādaka˚).

see jhāyati¹ & jhāna

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…

…uppādeti Mil.214.

• -uppādaka one who sheds the blood of an Arahant Vin.i.89, Vin.i.136, Vin.i.320; Vin.v.222 *…

…bundikābaddha, kuḷīra-pādaka, āhacca-pādaka; same defⁿ at Vb-a.365); Snp.401; Ja.iii.423; Dhp-a.i.89 (˚ṃ bandhati to tie…

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

…+).

fr….

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- …

…bundikābaddha, kuḷirapādaka, āhaccapādaka* (same categories as given under mañca)
■ Vin.i.47, Vin.i.180 Vin.ii.114, Vin.ii.149,…

one who obtains Mil.349.

fr. sampādeti

…Ja.iii.364).

• -pādaka having legs like those of a gazelle Ja.i.267.

Vedic śarabha a sort of deer Ja.iv.267;…

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

fr. uppāda²

…be removed, removable, in -pādaka-pīṭha & ˚mañca; a collapsible bed or chair, i e whose legs or feet can be put on & taken away at…

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 …