pada-patha
पदपाठ padapāṭhaThe 'word-by-word' recitation of a Vedic text, with every word isolated in its underlying form; one of the methods that preserved the Veda exactly.
Where this term appears
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
…ecitation ( samhita-patha ), reciters learned the text word by word ( pada-patha ), then in overlapping pairs ( krama-patha ), and then in a series of increasingly elaborate "woven" forms — the most complex, gh…
- How the Vedas Were Preserved History
So the student next learns the pada-patha , the "word" recitation, in which every single word is pronounced separately, in its pure, unmerged form.
- Against the Page Treatise
The pada-patha breaks it into separate words, stripping away the sound-changes that join them, so that each word stands exposed in its true form.
- Keeping the Sound Treatise
Against it stands the pada-patha , the word-by-word recitation, in which every word is isolated and pronounced in its bare, uncombined form, so that you can hear exactly which word is which before the joins blu…
- The Machine Made of Memory Treatise
Pulling the river apart: pada-patha The first move is to take the continuous stream and break it back into its separate words.