Leḍḍu [dial. Sk. leṣṭu>*leṭṭhu>*leṭṭu>leḍḍu; also Prk. leḍu & leṭṭhu: Pischel, § 304; cp. Geiger, P.Gr. § 62] a clod of earth S v.146=J ii.59 (˚ṭṭhāna); J i.19, 175; iii.16; vi.405; Miln 255; SnA 222 (ākāse khitta, in simile); Vism 28 (trsln "stone"), 360 (˚khaṇḍ'ādīni), 366 (containing gold), 419; VbhA 66 (˚khaṇḍā); VvA 141; PvA 284. -- The throwing of clods (stones?) is a standing item in the infliction of punishments, where it is grouped with daṇḍa (stick) and sattha (sword), or as leḍḍu -- daṇḍ'ādi, e. g. at M i.123; D ii.336, 338 (v. l. leṇḍu); J ii.77; iii.16; vi.350; Vism 419; DhA i.399 (v. l. leṇḍu); iii.41; iv.77; VvA 141. -- Note. leḍḍūpaka in cuṇṇaŋ vā telaŋ vā leḍḍūpakena etc. at DhsA 115 read as vālaṇḍupakena, as at Vism 142.

 -- pāta "throw of a clod," a certain measure of (not too far) a distance Vin iv.40; Vism 72; DhsA 315 (trsln "a stone's throw").