His cities which I laid waste I separated from his land, and gave them to Mitinti the king of Ashdod, and Padi the king of Ekron, and Ismibil the king of Gaza, and thus I diminished his land.
I brought it about that Padi their king could leave Jerusalem, installed him on his throne of dominion over them, and laid upon him the tribute of my rule.
Sennacherib had time to bring the siege of Ekron to an end, to execute the leaders of the rebellion, to carry away a part of the population, and set up Padi again as the prince of Ekron (p.
Padi besides the tribute in this negotiation with Hezekiah.
It is clear that when the tribute had been paid, and Padi given up, he made the further request to open the gates of Jerusalem.
If Sennacherib states further that he "brought Padiout of Jerusalem" (p.
Thus the female reapers of the first ripe padi are specially enjoined to reap in a straight line facing the sun, so that their shadow may not fall upon the rice-soul in the basket at their sides (vide pp.
Also the padi must not be threshed by hitting it against the inside of a box, a practice known as banting padi.
Then, as the shadows were lengthening, and the zigzags on the padi had given way to a soft and mellow light fanned by an evening breeze, X.
Long reaches of padi fields, backed by hills in a high state of cultivation, and the whole watered by little gushing torrents that looked cool and refreshing in the all-surrounding sun.
Though the population is large, there is seldom any trouble about boundary marks in the padi fields.
The path was a very rough one, and for the first portion of the distance the way was through an open country planted withpadi as far as the eye could reach.
On their right lay the endless padi fields of early green and ripening gold, all equally shimmering in the sun.
I can make out the causeway well enough and the water in the padi fields reflects already a wan and shadowy light.
And now with the increasing day a mist arises from the padi fields and climbs half way up the gentle hills.
It is amusing to watch their hurrying reflections in the padi water.
It was an hour's journey along a pathway of broad stone steps, under fir trees, and now and again you caught a delightful glimpse of the broad river shining in the sun amid the exultant green of the padi fields.
Therefore they sacrifice only pigs to Bura Deo, but apparently the Padi Marabi also both sacrifice and eat pigs.
Then follow the sapta padi or seven steps round the post, and the ceremony concludes with a dance, a feast and an orgy of drunkenness.
In Mandla the Marabi sept are divided into the Eti Marabi and Padi Marabi, named after the goat and pig.
In all probability, Hezekiah did not know at the time that Padi was an Assyrian vassal, otherwise he would not have incurred the risk of an invasion of his country by the dreaded Assyrians.
He cultivates padifor a livelihood-- Dia buat bendang[35] men-chahari makan.
The man whose heart is filled with hatred against another will retire secretly to a spot at the edge of a PADI field, or of some other clearing, where he can see a large expanse of sky and yet feel sure of being unobserved.
Laki Ivong is asked to bring the soul of the PADI to their homes.
The PADI has life or soul, or vitality, and is subject to sickness and to many vaguely conceived influences, both good and bad.
PADI before pounding it; the mat which every person spreads to sleep upon.
Round about the house, and especially on the space between it and the brink of the river, are numerous PADI barns (Pl.
Unlike all the other peoples, they cultivate no PADI (rice), and they do not make boats or travel on the rivers.
This is supposed to have been done from the earliest time of PADI planting, so that the basket contains some of the original stock of seed, or at least the virtue of it leavening the whole.
As soon as dinner is over the pounding of the PADI begins (Frontispiece, Vol.
As the party returned home and passed through their fields the PADI grew very rapidly.
Wild sago is abundant and is much used by Punans, and occasionally by most of the other peoples when their supply of PADI is short.
When this state of affairs results, the, village is moved to a new site, chosen chiefly with an eye to the abundance of land suitable for the cultivation of the PADI crop.
It was truly a dismal swamp, and looked as if the padi were coming up by accident among the reeds and weeds.
Threshing consists in beating the ears with thick sticks to loosen the husks, after which the padi is carried in baskets to platforms ten feet above the ground, and is allowed to fall on mats, when the chaff is driven away by the wind.
I stored up the bamboo and gum and when I had accumulated enough I went to the coast to sell my merchandise coming back well provided with tobacco, iron, coloured beads, matches, salt, rice padi and maize.
With this scope in view, from time to time, I make a distribution of padi or maize and am glad to see that little by little the miserable plots once rudely sown with corn are now becoming ample fields.
This city had put in irons its own king, Padi (who remained loyal to the suzerain), and handed him over to Hezekiah, who appears as the soul of the rebellion in these quarters.
In the Lampong country they make a distinction of padi krawang and padi jerru, of which I know nothing more than that the former is a month earlier in growth than the latter.
The padi tipar is sown in high ploughed lands in November, and reaped in March (earlier in the season than I could have supposed.
The padi santong, which is small, straight, and light-coloured, is held to be the finest.
They carry their gold about them, wrapped in small pieces of bladder (or rather the integument of the heart), and often make purchases to so small an amount as to employ grains of padi or other seeds for weights.
When the padi begins to form the ear or to blossom, as the natives express it, the water is finally drawn off, and at the expiration of four months from the time of transplanting it arrives at maturity.
The padi sawa is sown in low watered grounds in the month of March, transplanted in April, and reaped in August.
If rain succeeds the padiis above ground in four or five days; but by an unexpected run of dry weather it is sometimes lost, and the field sowed a second time.
If buffaloes are stolen they shall be valued at twelve dollars per head: padi at four bakul (baskets) for the dollar.
At Pidir a measure of rice is paid for every measure of padi sown, which amounts to about a twentieth part.
It is very recently that the Dyaks have ventured to store their padi in houses.
It is very white and of excellent flavor, and I am inclined to think is the 'Padi ladang,' or rice grown on dry ground.
The rice and padi had not, however, been paid for.
A stranger might now pass from village to village, and he would receive their hospitality, and see their padi stored in their houses.
As this was done in the face of my caution not to intermeddle without my consent, I resolved at once to put the matter to the issue; and having armed four boats, went up and seized all the rice and padi collected for my neighbors' use.
Hog Hill), the village where we are at present, and fivepadi stores.
Thus the Dyaks, in stowing their rice at harvest, do it with great care, from a superstitious feeling that the Simungi of the padi will escape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "padi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
