Rada vs Pada - What's the difference?
rada | pada |
(politics) a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries
a Ukrainian and alternative Belarusian name for soviet, a form of governing council in the former Soviet Union
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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