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'''Pada''' may refer to:
In '''geography''':
*[[Pada, Estonia|Pada]], a village in [[Viru-Nigula Commune]], [[Lääne-Viru County]], [[Estonia]].
*[[Pada River]], [[Estonia]].
The Sanskrit term '''pada''' (''{{IAST|pāda}}'' "foot"):
*in [[Vedic meter|Sanskrit poetic meter]] (''[[chandas]]''), a quarter of a full verse (the foot of a quadruped being one out of four), e.g. a [[shloka]] of 24 syllables consists of four padas of 6 syllables.
*The term may also refer to the division of a text into four quarters; e.g. the eight chapters of the [[Astadhyayi]] are divided into four padas each.
*In traditional Sanskit grammar ([[Vyakarana]]), ''{{IAST|pāda}}'' is the term for "[[word]]", in the [[Astadhyayi]] defined as ''{{IAST|suP-tiṄ-antam pādam}}'' " a string ending with either a nominal or a verbal desinence is called ''{{IAST|pāda}}'' (word)".
*As a measure, it equals 12 ''angulas'', see [[Hindu units of measurement]].
*A padapatha is a word-by-word variant of a Vedic text, and the name of the associated '''[[patha]]''' or mode of recitation.
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