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Padas Damit Forest Reserve , sometimes known as Pada
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Pada may refer to: * ''Pada'' (film), an upcoming Indian film *Pada (foot), in Sanskrit grammar, and Hindu and Buddhist tradition *Sri Pada or Adam's Peak, a mountain in Sri Lanka *Pada, Estonia, village in Viru-Nigula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia *Pada river, see List of rivers of Estonia *Padar Island Padar, also known as Pada, is a small island located between Komodo and Rinca islands within Komodo archipelago, administrated under the West Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. It is the third largest island part of Komodo National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pada (film)
''Pada'' () is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language Political social-thriller film directed by Kamal K. M. (who directed '' I.D.'') and starring Kunchacko Boban, Joju George, Vinayakan, and Dileesh Pothan. The film is based on a true incident that occurred in 1996 when the then Palakkad collector was held hostage. The film was released on 11 March 2022 and opened to widespread critical acclaim. Premise The film is based on a true incident that occurred in 1996 when the then Palakkad collector was held hostage. Pada begins with showing how five men in different places planning for something big to be done by them which might trigger a revolution. The group arrives at their destination, and waits for the collector to come. After a day's wait, they get into collector's chamber and forcibly ties him by chasing others around him out. On the collector's insistence to reveal, they identify themselves as 'Ayyankali Pada', activists working for the welfare of tribals and their current re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pada (foot)
''Pāda'' 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). In Sanskrit metre, ''pāda'' is the term for a metrical foot. As a measure of length, a ''pada'' amounts to 12 or 15 fingers' breadth, or 1/2 or 1/3 or 3/7 of a Prakrama. In Sanskrit grammar, a ''pada'' is any inflected word (noun or verb). In Buddhism, ''pāda'' is the term for a Buddha footprint. Gautama Buddha’s footprints symbolized his presence, and his image and iconography developed several centuries after he had died. There are also several landmarks venerated as "footprints" (''pāda'', also ''pādamudrā'') of Hindu deities. For example, ''Si Pada'' on Adam's Peak i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam's Peak
Adam's Peak is a tall conical mountain located in central Sri Lanka. It is well known for the Sri Pada ( si, ශ්රී පාද), i.e., "sacred footprint", a rock formation near the summit, which in Buddhist tradition is held to be the footprint of the Buddha, in Hindu tradition that of Hanuman or Shiva (), i.e., "Mountain of Shiva's Light", and in some Islamic and Christian traditions that of Adam, or that of St. Thomas. Geography The mountain is located in the southern reaches of the Central Highlands in the Ratnapura District and Nuwara Eliya District of the Sabaragamuwa Province and Central Province —lying about northeast of Ratnapura and southwest of Hatton. The surrounding region is largely forested hills, with no mountain of comparable size nearby. The region along the mountain is a wildlife reserve, housing many species varying from elephants to leopards, and including many endemic species. Adam's Peak is important as a watershed. The distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pada, Estonia
Pada is a village in Viru-Nigula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. It has a population of 63 (as of 1 January 2010). The village was first mentioned in the Danish Census Book in 1241. Tallinn–Narva Narva, russian: Нарва is a municipality and city in Estonia. It is located in Ida-Viru County, Ida-Viru county, at the Extreme points of Estonia, eastern extreme point of Estonia, on the west bank of the Narva (river), Narva river which ... highway ( E20) passes through Pada in the valley of Pada River. During the snowstorm Monika in December 2010 the traffic was halted in the Padaorg valley, about 600 people got snowed in. References Villages in Lääne-Viru County {{LääneViru-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Estonia
Rivers of Estonia are short and mostly have small discharge. Only 10 rivers are longer than 100 km. The largest river is Narva River, Narva (length 77 km) on the Estonian–Russian border, whose average discharge is larger than that of all other rivers combined. Longest rivers List of rivers ''List is incomplete.'' ReferencesEstonica: The hydrographic network * {{List of rivers of Europe Rivers of Estonia, Lists of rivers by country, Estonia Lists of landforms of Estonia, Rivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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