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The corpus record — Sanskrit

catuṣpadaḥ

catuṣpad (cat), mfn. ( nom. sg. pād; pl. pādas, irreg. padas, BhP. v, 1, 14 ; vi, 4, 9 ; loc. pātsu, AitBr. vi, 2, 7 ; abl. pādbhyas, Pāṇ. iv, 1, 135 ) f. (padī) n. ( nom. pad, RV. 4 times, or pād, RV. twice). ( Pāṇ. v, 4, 140 ) quadruped, m. a quadruped, n. quadrupeds (collectively), animals, RV. ;

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Where it lives

  • Svetasvatara Upanisad 1 · 5.82/10k
  • Mandukya Upanisad 1 · 5.13/10k
  • Chandogya Upanisad 3 · 0.64/10k
  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 3 · 0.4/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. catuṣpad

catuṣpad (cat), mfn. ( nom. sg. pād; pl. pādas, irreg. padas, BhP. v, 1, 14 ; vi, 4, 9 ; loc. pātsu, AitBr. vi, 2, 7 ; abl. pādbhyas, Pāṇ. iv, 1, 135 ) f. (padī) n. ( nom. pad, RV. 4 times, or pād, RV. twice). ( Pāṇ. v, 4, 140 ) quadruped, m. a quadruped, n. quadrupeds (collectively), animals, RV. ; AV. &c.

2. catuṣpad

(in prosody) consisting of 4 Pāda s, RV. i, 164, 24 ; x, 27, 10

3. catuṣpad

(a judicial procedure) consisting of 4 processes ( viz. plea, defence, rejoinder, and sentence), Yājñ. ii, 8

In the wild

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.