The available experimental data on the specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, valence, NMR Knight shift and relaxation rate, and the quadrupolar moment of ${\mathrm{YbPd}}_2$${\mathrm{Si}}_2$ are examined within the framework of the single-ion Anderson model. Such an analysis has previously given excellent agreement between theory and experiment for numerous other light heavy-fermion compounds, where crystalline fields do not play a dominant role. For ${\mathrm{YbPd}}_2$${\mathrm{Si}}_2$, substantial crystalline-field splittings make difficult a quantitative comparison with existing exact solutions of the Anderson model. Inconsistencies with the interpretation that a nearly degenerate ground quadruplet determines the low-temperature thermodynamics are pointed out. It is concluded that at least three of the four Kramers doublets participate in the low-T properties. These three doublets should have a splitting of the order of the Kondo temperature, i.e., about 100 K. A simple resonant-level model parametrizing the NMR relaxation rate at low T is presented. Finally, hydrostatic-pressure experiments are suggested to study the nature of the faint, ordered phase at very low temperatures.

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