one who pierces or destroys, a destroyer, breaker, in phrase mahato kāyassa padāletā the destroyer of a great body (or bulk) AN.i.284 sq. (in sequence dūre-pātin, akkhaṇavedhin, m. k. p.); AN.ii.170 sq., AN.ii.202; cp. padāleti¹.

n. ag. to padāleti