As a deity name
Name 793 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
पाना · masculine
spanner, wrench
पाना
to get, receive; to obtain; to win, attain, achieve; to find, come upon, meet
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit प्रापयति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Indo-Iranian *pra- Sanskrit प्र- (pra-) Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep- Sanskrit आप् (āp) Proto-Indo-E…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the foot or leg of an inanimate object, column, pillar, &c.
Scripturally attested Verified split — attested membersMultiple readings (8)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "pādāya" is the dative of "pāda" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
pāda m. (ifc. f(ā). , rarely f(ī). ) 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.
Alternative readings
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