C$_{p}$ = C$_{el}$ + C$_{ph}$ + C$_{mag}$ + C$_{Sch}$ (1) 6 applied along the a - and c -axis, respectively. In zero magnetic field a large and sharp l -shape anomaly in the C$_{P}$ ( T ) dependence, peaking at 12.4 K was detected and three much smaller peak-like anomalies located at 4.4, 3.9, 3.4 K, respectively (see Fig.1). We tentatively denote these temperatures as T$_{C}$ , T$_{1}$ , T$_{2}$ , T$_{3}$ , respectively. The 12.4-K anomaly became gradually enhanced with increasing magnetic field applied along the c -axis( B ‖ c ), though it remained ’pinned’ at nearly the same temperature (it move only very slightly to higher temperatures). Although such evolution is rather unusual, the magnetization and resistivity data presented below confirm that this specific-heat anomaly is apparently associated with the onset of a ferromagnetic ordering in SmPd$_{2}$Al$_{3}$ and 12.4 K is the Curie temperature ( T$_{C}$ ) of this material. The low-temperature anomalies, which were smeared out in fields B ‖ c higher than 1 T, were presumably associated with an order-order magnetic phase transition. The 12.4-K peak remained nearly intact in a magnetic field up to 9 T applied along the a -axis (not shown in the figure), thus confirming a strong magnetocrystalline anisotropy in the ferromagnetic state. On the other hand, the low temperature group of anomalies became continuously smeared out with an increasing field B ‖ a (not shown in the figure). This result indicates that the low temperature phases ( T < T$_{1}$ ) have nonzero components (probably antiferromagnetic) in the basal plane of the hexagonal structure. For proper comparison, in the following discussion of our results along with existing literature data on SmPd$_{2}$Al$_{3}$, we have collected together all existing information (including our results) on the temperatures of anomalies of specific heat, magnetization in very low fields, AC susceptibility and electrical resistivity in the Tab. I. It is immediately apparent that there is an unambiguous response of all measured properties to the onset of magnetic ordering slightly above 12 K. whereas the situation is not so straightforward in the of features observed between 3 and 5 K. The temperature dependence of the specific heat of SmPd$_{2}$Al$_{3}$, which is presented over a wide temperature range in Fig.2, was considered to be a sum of the electronic C$_{el}$ , phonon C$_{ph}$ , magnetic C$_{mag}$ and Shottky C$_{Sch}$ contribution, respectively: The most significant is the phonon contribution mainly at higher temperatures and this contribution was evaluated within the afore mentioned Debye and Einstein model $^{22}$, the results being listed in Tab. II. The values of the phonon contribution have then been subtracted from the raw specific-heat data. As input data for the used model, the values