pāda

  1. the foot, usually pl. pādā both feet, e.g. Vin.i.9, Vin.i.34, Vin.i.188; Iti.111; Snp.309, Snp.547, Snp.768, Snp.835, Snp.1028; Ja.ii.114; Ja.iv.137; Dhp-a.iii.196; Pv-a.4, Pv-a.10, Pv-a.40, Pv-a.68; Vv-a.105. In sg. scarce and then specified as eka˚ & dutiya˚, e.g. at Cnd.304iii Ja.vi.354.
  2. foot or base of a mountain Vism.399 (Sineru˚); Dhp-a.i.108 (pabbata˚).
  3. the fourth part (“foot”) of a verse (cp. pada 4) Snp-a.239, Snp-a.273 Snp-a.343, Snp-a.363; Thag-a.23.
  4. a coin Vin.iii.47; Vv-a.77 (worth here 1/4 of a kahāpaṇa and double the value of māsaka; see also kākaṇikā).
  • -aṅguṭṭha a toe MN.i.337.
  • -aṅguṭṭhaka same Ja.ii.447 Vism.233.
  • -aṅguli same Pv-a.125 (opp. to hatth anguli finger).
  • -aṭṭhika bone of the foot MN.i.58, MN.i.89 MN.iii.92; Kp-a.49.
  • -āpacca offspring fr. the foot (of Brahmā): see bandhu.
  • -ūdara “(using) the belly as feet,” i.e. a snake Snp.604.
  • -odaka water for washing the feet Vin.i.9.
  • -kathalika (˚iya) acc. to Bdhgh either a foot stool or a towel (adhota-pāda-ṭhapanakaṃ pāda-ghaṃsanaṃ vā, see Vin. Texts i.92; ii.373) Vin.i.9, Vin.i.46; Vin.ii.22; Vin.iv.310; Kv.440; Vv-a.8; Dhp-a.i.321
  • -kudārikā holding the feet like an axe (?) Pv.iv.1#47 (explained at Pv-a.240 by pādasankhātā kudārikā; does k. here represent kuṭhārikā? The reading & meaning is uncertain).;
  • -aṅguṭṭha a toe MN.i.337.
  • -khīla a corn in the foot Vin.i.188 (as ˚ālādha, cp. Vin Texts ii.19).
  • -cāra moving about on feet Ja.iv.104.
  • -tala the sole of the foot Vin.i.179; MN.iii.90; DN.iii.143, DN.iii.148; Pv-a.74.
  • -dhovana cleaning or washing one’s feet Dhp-a.ii.9.
  • -pa “drinking with the foot,” N. for tree Pv.iv.3#9 (cp. Pv-a.251); Mil.117 Mil.376; Vism.533; Vv-a.212; Sdhp.270.
  • -paricārikā “serving on one’s feet,” i.e. a wife (cp. SN.i.125) Ja.iii.95 Ja.vi.268; Dhp-a.iii.194.
  • -pīṭha a foot-stool Vin.i.9 (cp vin. texts i.92); Vin.iv.310; Dhp-a.iii.120 = Dhp-a.iii.186; Vv-a.291
  • -puñchana(ka) wiping one’s feet (with a towel) Vism.358 (˚rajju-maṇḍalaka, in comparison = Vb-a.62) Vb-a.285 (˚coḷaka); Kp-a.144; Snp-a.333; Dhp-a.i.415 (˚ka).
  • -puñchanī a towel for the feet Vin.ii.174
  • -bbhañjana ointment for the feet, foot-salve Vin.i.205; Ja.v.197, Ja.v.376; Pv-a.44, Pv-a.78; anointing the feet Vv-a.44 (˚tėla), Vv-a.295 (id.).
  • -mūla the sole of the foot, the foot Ja.iv.131. Cp. mūla.
  • -mūlika “one who sits at one’s feet,” a foot-servant, lackey Ja.i.122, Ja.i.438; Ja.ii.300 sq (Gāmaṇicaṇḍa); Ja.iii.417; Ja.v.128; Ja.vi.30.
  • -lola loafing about, one who lingers after a thing, a greedy person Snp.63, Snp.972; Mnd.374; Cnd.433; abstr. f.
  • -lolatā Snp-a.36 &
  • -loliya Cnd.433.
  • -visāṇa “a horn on the foot,” i.e. an impossibility Ja.vi.340.
  • -sambāhana massaging the feet Dhp-a.i.38.

Vedic pāda, see etym. under pada