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pada - What does it mean?

Definition of 'pada'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 79:
  • *:There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.
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