Hasta nakshatra baby names

How the Hasta 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. Hasta covers Virgo 10°00′ – 23°20′, and the Moon crosses one pada of it in a little under six hours, so two children born in Hasta 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 Hasta

Panchang tables spell this syllable for pronunciation rather than for spelling — Poo is written Pu 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 Hasta: the exact degrees it spans, the Moon sign it falls in, and the nine-syllable rashi list that Hasta 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.

Hasta Pada 1 — Names Beginning With Pu (पू)

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

Hasta Pada 2 — Names Beginning With Sha (ष)

Navamsa sign Taurus · 4 boys' and 4 girls' names

Hasta's second pada is the retroflex ष, which begins very few words. Practice uses the श names, which is what every printed list does.

Hasta Pada 3 — Names Beginning With Na (ण / न)

Navamsa sign Gemini · 4 boys' and 4 girls' names

Hasta's third pada is the retroflex ण, which cannot begin a word in Sanskrit; Anuradha's first pada is the dental न. The same न names serve both, which is why they appear twice in printed tables.

Hasta Pada 4 — Names Beginning With Tha (ठ / थ)

Navamsa sign Cancer · no established names begin with this syllable

Hasta's fourth pada is ठ and Uttara Bhadrapada's second is थ. Neither begins an established Sanskrit given name — Thakur is a title, and Tharun and Thanuj are Tarun and Tanuj in southern spelling, which belong to the Ta padas. Another pada of the same nakshatra is the usual substitute.

What Hasta Says About the Child

An open hand, presided over by Savitar, ruled by the Moon — Hasta is the nakshatra of skill. Whatever these natives do with their hands, they do well: craft, surgery, instruments, massage, cooking, writing. It also carries wit, and Hasta is often the funniest person in the room. The hand is open, which classically means both the ability to acquire and the ability to give.

Lord Moon · presiding deity Savitar · symbol Hand · Deva gana. The full profile — padas, career indications, Kundli Milan values and remedies — is on the Hasta nakshatra page.

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