Ashwini अश्विनी · pada 4 of 4
Ashwini Pada 4 Baby Names — La (ला)
10 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Aries 10°00′ – 13°20′ — the fourth quarter of Ashwini, whose syllable is La. Moon sign Aries, navamsa Cancer.
- Pada
- fourth of four · Ashwini is nakshatra 1 of 27
- Naming syllable
- La ला
- Span
- Aries 10°00′ – 13°20′ · 10°00′ – 13°20′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Aries (Mesha)
- Navamsa
- Cancer (Karka) — the 4th navamsa from Aries
- Names listed
- 5 boys' names, 5 girls' names
- Position in Aries
- the fourth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Ketu · presiding deity Ashwini Kumaras · symbol Horse's head
Names beginning La for Ashwini pada 4
La is what the fourth quarter of Ashwini is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Aries 10°00′ – 13°20′, and the meaning matters as much as the sound: a name is used for a lifetime and the gloss is the part a child will be told.
Boys' names — 5
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Lakshya | an aim, a target |
| Lakshman | marked with auspicious signs — Rama's brother |
| Lalit | graceful, charming |
| Lakshit | aimed at, marked out |
| Lav | a fragment — one of Rama's twin sons |
Girls' names — 5
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Lakshmi | fortune — the goddess of wealth |
| Lavanya | grace, loveliness |
| Lalita | playful, charming — a name of Parvati |
| Latika | a small creeping vine |
| Lavanika | graceful |
Where the Aries naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Aries — Chu Che Cho La Li Lu Le Lo A — usually with no explanation of why there are nine. They are the pada syllables that fall inside the sign. There are 108 padas and twelve signs, 108 divides by twelve exactly, and so every sign holds precisely nine padas with nothing left over. The rashi list and the pada syllable are not two competing traditions; the first is the second, collected by sign.
Ashwini pada 4 is the fourth of the nine, contributing La at 10°00′ – 13°20′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies an Aries birth, so a family working from the list alone has eight usable syllables, while a pandit working from a birth time narrows it to the one this pada owns.
| # | Syllable | From | Names listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chu चु | Ashwini pada 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Che चे | Ashwini pada 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Cho चो | Ashwini pada 3 | none |
| 4 | La ला | Ashwini pada 4 — this pada | 10 |
| 5 | Li ली | Bharani pada 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Lu लु | Bharani pada 2 | 1 |
| 7 | Le ले | Bharani pada 3 | 3 |
| 8 | Lo लो | Bharani pada 4 | 6 |
| 9 | A अ | Krittika pada 1 | 14 |
The other three padas of Ashwini
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the fourth quarter of Ashwini occupies Aries 10°00′ – 13°20′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Ashwini itself: Ketu as lord, Ashwini Kumaras as presiding deity, the horse's head as symbol, and a character read as swift, healing, pioneering. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is La for pada 4 and Chu, Che and Cho for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | Chu चु | Aries | Aries | 2 |
| Pada 2 | Che चे | Aries | Taurus | 5 |
| Pada 3 | Cho चो | Aries | Gemini | none |
| Pada 4 — this page | La ला | Aries | Cancer | 10 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Ashwini profile, are on the Ashwini baby names page. 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 Ashwini pada 4 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Ashwini pada 4 — common questions
What letter should an Ashwini pada 4 baby's name start with?
La, in Devanagari ला. That syllable belongs to the fourth pada of Ashwini specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Ashwini's other three are Chu for pada 1, Che for pada 2 and Cho for pada 3.
How many names begin with La?
10 names, 5 for boys and 5 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what La carries, and so what the fourth pada of Ashwini offers. The count is uneven across the 108 padas by nature: the syllables come from dividing the zodiac, not from asking what Sanskrit allows at the start of a word, so Ashwini pada 4 gets what La actually begins.
Which rashi is Ashwini pada 4?
Aries — Mesha, entered at 10°00′ – 13°20′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Ashwini sits wholly inside Aries, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 4 adds is its place in the sign — fourth of the nine Aries syllables, La.
Are all nine Aries naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Aries is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable La is not duplicated anywhere else in Chu Che Cho La Li Lu Le Lo A. That is not true of every sign: Sagittarius carries Dha twice, for the dental and retroflex forms, and yields eight spellings from its nine padas. Within Aries, Ashwini pada 4 owns La outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Ashwini pada 4?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Ashwini pada 4 it is La. The navamsa — Cancer here, the 4th navamsa counted from Aries — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming an Ashwini pada 4 child?
The syllable is fixed by the pada, but the namakaran itself is fixed by the chart and by the day — which is a reading rather than a table. Our pandits do both.