m. (ifc. f(A). , rarely f(I). ) the foot (of men and animals), [RV.] &c. &c. (the pl. sometimes added to proper names or titles in token of respect, e.g. deva-pādāḥ, ‘the king's majesty’, [Pañc.] ; nārāyaṇap°, ‘the venerable N°’, [Sāh.]; pādaiḥ ind. on foot [said of several persons], [R.]; °dayoḥ and °de-√ pat, to fall at a person's [gen.] feet, [Kāv.]; [Hit.])
the foot or leg of an inanimate object, column, pillar, [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.
a wheel, [Śiś. xii, 21]
a foot as a measure (= 12 Aṅgulas), [ŚBr.]; [ŚrS.]; [MārkP.]
the foot or root of a tree, [Var.]
the foot or a hill at the foot of a mountain, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
the bottom (dṛteh pādāt, ‘from the bottom of a bag’ v.l. pātrāt), [MBh. v, 1047]
a ray or beam of light (considered as the foot of a heavenly body), [ib.]
a quarter, a fourth part (the foot of a quadruped being one out of 4), [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. (pl. the 4 parts i.e. all things required for [gen.] [Suśr.])
the quadrant (of a circle), [Āryabh.], Sch.
a verse or line (as the fourth part of a regular stanza), [Br.]; [ŚrS.]; [Prāt.] &c.
the caesura of a verse, [AgP.], the chapter of a book (orig. only of a book or section of a book consisting of 4 parts, as the Adhyāyas of Pāṇini's grammar).