Padapa, Pada-pa, Pādapa: 21 definitions
Introduction:
Padapa means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Alternative spellings of this word include Padap.
In Hinduism
Dharmashastra (religious law)
Pādapa (पादप) refers to a “plant”. The word is used throughout Dharmaśāstra literature such as the Manusmṛti. (See the Manubhāṣya, verse 8.246)
Dharmashastra (धर्मशास्त्र, dharmaśāstra) contains the instructions (shastra) regarding religious conduct of livelihood (dharma), ceremonies, jurisprudence (study of law) and more. It is categorized as smriti, an important and authoritative selection of books dealing with the Hindu lifestyle.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)
Pādapa (पादप) refers to a “tree”, as mentioned in a list of twenty-five synonyms in the second chapter (dharaṇyādi-varga) of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu (an Ayurvedic encyclopedia). The Dharaṇyādi-varga covers the lands, soil, mountains, jungles and vegetation’s relations between trees [viz., Pādapa] and plants and substances, with their various kinds.
Agriculture (Krishi) and Vrikshayurveda (study of Plant life)
Pādapa (पादप) refers to a “tree”, and represents a technical term related to the morphology branch of “plant science”, which ultimately involves the study of life history of plants, including its origin and development, their external and internal structures and the relation of the members of the plant body with one another.—This branch of Botany is divided into “external morphology” and “internal morphology” or “histology”. Vṛkṣāyurveda of Parāśara has given detailed information on plant morphology. The vṛkṣāṅga-sūtrīya-adhyāya, i.e., the chapter of the bījotpatti-kāṇḍa of Parāśara’s Vṛkṣāyurveda deals with various parts of plants, e.g., Root (mūla or pāda). [...] The pāda or the mūla is the important member of the plant body. This is quite clear from the use of the word pādapa for trees. The term indicates that seedling absorbs food from body from the soil by putting forth its roots before it develops into a plant.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
Sports, Arts and Entertainment (wordly enjoyments)
Pādapa (पादप) refers to “trees” (useful during hunting), according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, “Hunting by means of artifice (kālyā) is of four kinds [...]. (b) Mūlalagnikā is that in which animals are deceived and killed by many people standing under cover of trees (pādapa-cchanna) and gradually coming close to each other behind them”.
This section covers the skills and profiencies of the Kalas (“performing arts”) and Shastras (“sciences”) involving ancient Indian traditions of sports, games, arts, entertainment, love-making and other means of wordly enjoyments. Traditionally these topics were dealt with in Sanskrit treatises explaing the philosophy and the justification of enjoying the pleasures of the senses.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Pādapa (पादप) participated in the war between Rāma and Rāvaṇa, on the side of the latter, as mentioned in Svayambhūdeva’s Paumacariu (Padmacarita, Paumacariya or Rāmāyaṇapurāṇa) chapter 57ff. Svayambhū or Svayambhūdeva (8th or 9th century) was a Jain householder who probably lived in Karnataka. His work recounts the popular Rāma story as known from the older work Rāmāyaṇa (written by Vālmīki). Various chapters [mentioning Pādapa] are dedicated to the humongous battle whose armies (known as akṣauhiṇīs) consisted of millions of soldiers, horses and elephants, etc.
Pādapa (पादप) refers to a “tree”, according to the 11th century Jñānārṇava, a treatise on Jain Yoga in roughly 2200 Sanskrit verses composed by Śubhacandra.—Accordingly, “Those [people] who, having discerned [this], still do not do what is beneficial for themselves in the human state, certainly cultivate a poisonous tree (viṣa-pādapa) for their own destruction”.
Synonyms: Vṛkṣa, Aṅghripa, Kuja.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
pādapa : (m.) a tree.
Pādapa refers to: “drinking with the foot, ” N. for tree Pv IV. 39 (cp. PvA. 251); Miln. 117, 376; Vism. 533; VvA. 212; Sdhp. 270.
Note: pādapa is a Pali compound consisting of the words pāda and pa.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
paḍapa (पडप).—n (paḍhiyantā Dear, darling.) Excessive fondness for and admiration of; extravagant inclination to sing the praises of and boast of: also the praises of, or the celebrated virtues and merits of. Ex. sukhāsīṃ mahāsukha bhēṭalēṃ kiṃ svānubhavāsīṃ pa0 jōḍalēṃ dōghē ānandēṃ sphuñjōṃ lāgalē: also the praises of, or the virtues and merits of, as disallowed or rebuked. v sāṅga, bōla. 2 Assumed importance or consequence; airs, affectation, arrogance. Ex. cākarā- cēṃ itakēṃ pa0 kaśāsa pāhijē. 3 Novelty or remarkableness; marvelousness, showiness, or striking fineness (of matters or things). Ex. tyā gōṣṭīcēṃ mōṭhēṃ pa0 vāṭatēṃ or jhālēṃ.
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pādapa (पादप).—m S A tree. Ex. śvāpadēṃ pāṣāṇa pādapa || sītā mhaṇōni āliṅgī ||.
paḍapa (पडप).—n Excessive fondness for and admiration of. Arrogance. Novelty.
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pādapa (पादप).—m A tree.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Pādapa (पादप).—
1) a tree; निरस्तपादपे देशे एरण्डोऽपि द्रुमायते (nirastapādape deśe eraṇḍo'pi drumāyate) H.1.67; अनुभवति हि मूर्ध्ना पादपस्तीव्रमुष्णम् (anubhavati hi mūrdhnā pādapastīvramuṣṇam) Ś.5.7.
2) a foot-stool.
-pā a shoe. °खण्डः, -ण्डम् (khaṇḍaḥ, -khaṇḍam) a grove of trees. °रुहा (ruhā) a climbing plant.
Derivable forms: pādapaḥ (पादपः).
Pādapa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pāda and pa (प).
Pādapa (पादप).—m.
(-paḥ) 1. A tree. 2. A foot-stool, a cushion, &c. for the feet. f.
(-pā) A shoe, a slipper. E. pāda, a foot, or root, and pā to drink or preserve, aff. ka.
Pādapa (पादप).—[pāda-pa] (vb. 1. pā), m. A tree, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 246.
Pādapa (पादप).—[masculine] plant, tree (drinking with the foot or root).
1) Pādapa (पादप):—[=pāda-pa] [from pāda > pād] a See p.618.
2) [=pāda-pa] [from pād] 1. pāda-pa (√1. pā) m. (ifc. f(ā). ) ‘drinking at foot or root’, a tree, plant, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc. (-ka idem ifc. [Kathāsaritsāgara])
3) [=pāda-pa] [from pād] 2. pāda-pa m. (√3. pā) a foot-stool or cushion for the feet, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
4) Pādapā (पादपा):—[=pāda-pā] [from pāda-pa > pād] f. a shoe, slipper, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Pādapa (पादप):—[pāda-pa] (paḥ) 1. m. A tree; a footstool. f. (pā) A shoe or slipper.
Pādapa (पादप):—1. (pāda + 1. pa) m. [Śāntanācārya’s Phiṭsūtrāṇi 3, 6.] Pflanze, insbes. Baum (mit dem Fusse, d. i. mit der Wurzel, trinkend) [Amarakoṣa 2, 4, 1, 5.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 277.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1114.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 445] (lies drau st. drau). [Medinīkoṣa Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 21] (lies pādapīṭhe drau). [Halāyudha 2, 22.] madhudohaṃ duhedrāṣṭraṃ bhramarā iva pādapam [Mahābhārata 12, 3305.] (purīm) sarvaistu kusumaiḥ puṇyaiḥ pādapairupaśobhitām [Indralokāgamana 2, 1.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 246.] [Daśaratha’s Tod 1, 16.] [Suśruta 1, 22, 15. 374, 18.] [Śākuntala 8, 23. 104.] [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 34.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 45, 31. 54, 31. 74, 2.] [Brahmapurāṇa] in [Lassen’s Anthologie 52, 11.] nirastapādape deśe eraṇḍo pi drumāyate [Hitopadeśa I, 63.] Am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Harivaṃśa 3925.] [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 16, 22.] [Raghuvaṃśa 11, 52.]
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Pādapa (पादप):—2. (pāda + 2. pa)
1) Fussbank [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 277.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 445.] [Medinīkoṣa Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 21.] [Hārāvalī 265.] —
2) f. ā Fussbedeckung, Schuh [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa]
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Pādapa (पादप):—3. = pādapaiḥ kṛtam (saṃjñāyām) [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 3, 119.] n. [Scholiast]
Pādapa (पादप):—1. m. (adj. Comp. f. ā) Pflanze , insbes. Baum.
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Pādapa (पादप):—2. —
1) m. Fussbank. —
2) f. ā Fussbedeckung , Schuh.
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Pādapa (पादप):—3. n. Nom. pr.
Pādapa (पादप) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Pāyava.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
Pādapa (पादप) [Also spelled padap]:—(nm) tree; plant.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Paḍapa (ಪಡಪ):—[noun] a small pouch for carrying betel leaves, arecanut etc.
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Pādapa (ಪಾದಪ):—[noun] that which drinks water through its root; a plant, esp. a tree.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Pa, Pada, Pata.
Starts with (+18): Padapacca, Padapaccabhattha, Padapaccabhatthasankaradosa, Padapacchanna, Padapaccheda, Padapadadhavana, Padapadapay, Padapadatthavicarana, Padapadavay, Padapaddhati, Padapadi, Padapadisu, Padapadma, Padapadmopajivin, Padapaka, Padapakhanda, Padapaksha, Padapali, Padapalika, Padapallata.
Full-text (+94): Kalpapadapa, Dirghapadapa, Pratipadapam, Brahmapadapa, Padaparuha, Arkapadapa, Papada, Shakrapadapa, Dipapadapa, Bijapadapa, Gajapadapa, Phalapadapa, Surapadapa, Padapakhanda, Uddeshyapadapa, Nistoyatrinapadapa, Vanapadapa, Kunjarapadapa, Bodhipadapa, Vishapadapa.
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