Pada or
pada is the
Sanskrit term for "
foot" (cognate to English
foot, Latin
pes, Greek
pous), with derived meanings "step, stride; footprint, trace; vestige, mark". The term has a wide range of applications, including any one of four parts (as it were one foot of a quadruped), or any sub-division more generally, e.g. a chapter of a book (originally a section of a book divided in four parts).