Ashlesha nakshatra baby names

How the Ashlesha Naming Syllable Is Chosen

At the namakarana, the rite of naming held traditionally on the eleventh or twelfth day, the child’s ritual name begins with a syllable fixed by the Moon’s position at birth. The Moon’s path is divided into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′ each, and each nakshatra into four padas of 3°20′. That gives 108 padas and 108 syllables — one for each, and the same 108 that make up the four-times-27 grid printed in every panchang.

The syllable belongs to the pada, not to the nakshatra. Ashlesha covers Cancer 16°40′ – 30°00′, and the Moon crosses one pada of it in a little under six hours, so two children born in Ashlesha on the same day can carry different syllables. This is the reason a birth time and place are needed and a date alone is not enough — any tool that gives you a syllable from the date is guessing.

27 nakshatras × 4 padas = 108 = 12 signs × 9 navamsas, which is why each pada also falls in its own navamsa sign. Those signs are listed against each pada below.

The Four Padas of Ashlesha

Panchang tables spell these syllables for pronunciation rather than for spelling — Dee is written Di at the start of a name, Doo is written Du at the start of a name and Day is written De at the start of a name. The syllable is the same sound either way.

The four name lists are all on this page, in full, below. Each pada also has its own page, which carries what is specific to that quarter rather than to Ashlesha: the exact degrees it spans, the Moon sign it falls in, and the nine-syllable rashi list that Ashlesha pada syllable belongs to — the list a panchang prints against a sign, which turns out to be the nine pada syllables inside it.

Not sure which pada? The pada follows from the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the time and place of birth — the baby name finder resolves it from a birth date, and the nakshatra finder gives the nakshatra and pada together.

Ashlesha Pada 1 — Names Beginning With Di (डी)

Navamsa sign Sagittarius · 4 boys' and 5 girls' names

Ashlesha's padas are the retroflex ड, which begins almost no inherited Sanskrit word. Pandits and panchang tables substitute the dental द, so the Di- names are the ones used for this pada.

Ashlesha Pada 2 — Names Beginning With Du (डू)

Navamsa sign Capricorn · 1 boys' and 2 girls' names

Ashlesha’s second pada is डू, the retroflex again, and the dental दू names are the ones in use.

Ashlesha Pada 3 — Names Beginning With De (डे)

Navamsa sign Aquarius · 5 boys' and 5 girls' names

Ashlesha’s third pada is डे; the dental दे names serve it, as they do the first two padas.

Ashlesha Pada 4 — Names Beginning With Do (डो / दो)

Navamsa sign Pisces · 0 boys' and 1 girls' names

This syllable falls twice — Ashlesha's fourth pada (डो) and Revati's second (दो) — and neither has an established Sanskrit name. Dolly and Dorathi, which the lists print, are English. Bengali families use Doyel, the magpie robin.

There is no established boy's name beginning with Do in common use. The three traditional substitutes below apply.

What Ashlesha Says About the Child

The coiled serpent, presided over by the Nagas, ruled by Mercury — Ashlesha is the most penetrating of the twenty-seven. These natives read what people are not saying, and the ability is real rather than intuitive: they watch closely and remember. Ashlesha produces exceptional diagnosticians, negotiators and investigators, and it holds information rather than spending it.

Lord Mercury · presiding deity Sarpas (Nagas) · symbol Coiled snake · Rakshasa gana. The full profile — padas, career indications, Kundli Milan values and remedies — is on the Ashlesha nakshatra page.

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