"padam" meaning in English

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          "text": "The dance-drama students will have already learned their roles in the padams, without music, in group “sitting classes” in the dance-drama kal·aris; in theory they would have to perform these padams in sitting classes perfectly rehearsing with musicians in the colliyattam studio",
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          "text": "The best way to express our indebtedness to the Brinda-Muktha legacy would be to include a padam or javali in concerts",
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