Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.754
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.754
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v1.c3.s21.754
2. Pāda, as a measure of length, denotes ‘foot’ in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa.¹ The term is occasionally² used to express a measure of weight. As a fraction it means a ‘quarter,’ a sense derived from that of ‘foot’ of a quadruped (just as śapha, the divided hoof, comes to mean an ‘eighth’).