Pa > References for ‘paddá’
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[9] When a conjunct has va, ya or ma [...] = viddán, padmá = paddá, vidyá = viddá, [...] jyánta is pronounced jiiánta.
[40] As with Bengali script, the effect [...] padmá [lotus] but we read it paddá because in modern Bengali the [...] padmá was certainly pad-má.