Panda vs Pada - What's the difference?
panda | pada |
The giant panda – a black and white bear-like animal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca from the mountains of China.
(UK, colloquial) A police car.
The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 79:
*:There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.
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