Hasta हस्त · pada 2 of 4
Hasta Pada 2 Baby Names — Sha (ष)
8 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Virgo 13°20′ – 16°40′ — the second quarter of Hasta, whose syllable is Sha. Moon sign Virgo, navamsa Taurus.
- Pada
- second of four · Hasta is nakshatra 13 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Sha ष
- Span
- Virgo 13°20′ – 16°40′ · 163°20′ – 166°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Virgo (Kanya)
- Navamsa
- Taurus (Vrishabha) — the 9th navamsa from Virgo
- Names listed
- 4 boys' names, 4 girls' names
- Position in Virgo
- the fifth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Moon · presiding deity Savitar · symbol Hand
Names beginning Sha for Hasta pada 2
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.
Sha is what the second quarter of Hasta is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Virgo 13°20′ – 16°40′, 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 — 4
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Shashank | hare-marked — the moon |
| Shaurya | valour |
| Shankar | the auspicious one — Shiva |
| Sharad | the autumn |
Girls' names — 4
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Shanti | peace |
| Shakti | power — the goddess |
| Shalini | modest |
| Sharada | of the autumn — a name of Saraswati |
Where the Virgo naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Virgo — To Pa Pi Pu Sha Na Tha Pe Po — 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.
Hasta pada 2 is the fifth of the nine, contributing Sha at 163°20′ – 166°40′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies a Virgo birth, so a family working from the list alone has six usable syllables, while a pandit working from a birth time narrows it to the one this pada owns.
| # | Syllable | From | Names listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To टो / तो | Uttara Phalguni pada 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Pa पा | Uttara Phalguni pada 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Pi पी | Uttara Phalguni pada 4 | 3 |
| 4 | Pu पू | Hasta pada 1 | 9 |
| 5 | Sha ष | Hasta pada 2 — this pada | 8 |
| 6 | Na ण / न | Hasta pada 3 | 8 |
| 7 | Tha ठ / थ | Hasta pada 4 | none |
| 8 | Pe पे | Chitra pada 1 | none |
| 9 | Po पो | Chitra pada 2 | none |
The other three padas of Hasta
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the second quarter of Hasta occupies Virgo 13°20′ – 16°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Hasta itself: Moon as lord, Savitar as presiding deity, the hand as symbol, and a character read as skilful, witty, hands-on. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Sha for pada 2 and Pu, Na and Tha for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | Pu पू | Virgo | Aries | 9 |
| Pada 2 — this page | Sha ष | Virgo | Taurus | 8 |
| Pada 3 | Na ण / न | Virgo | Gemini | 8 |
| Pada 4 | Tha ठ / थ | Virgo | Cancer | none |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Hasta profile, are on the Hasta 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 Hasta pada 2 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Hasta pada 2 — common questions
What letter should a Hasta pada 2 baby's name start with?
Sha, in Devanagari ष. That syllable belongs to the second pada of Hasta specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Hasta's other three are Pu for pada 1, Na for pada 3 and Tha for pada 4.
How many names begin with Sha?
8 names, 4 for boys and 4 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Sha carries, and so what the second pada of Hasta 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 Hasta pada 2 gets what Sha actually begins.
Which rashi is Hasta pada 2?
Virgo — Kanya, entered at 163°20′ – 166°40′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Hasta sits wholly inside Virgo, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 2 adds is its place in the sign — fifth of the nine Virgo syllables, Sha.
Are all nine Virgo naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Virgo is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Sha is not duplicated anywhere else in To Pa Pi Pu Sha Na Tha Pe Po. 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 Virgo, Hasta pada 2 owns Sha outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Hasta pada 2?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Hasta pada 2 it is Sha. The navamsa — Taurus here, the 9th navamsa counted from Virgo — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Hasta pada 2 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.