Mula मूल · pada 1 of 4
Mula Pada 1 Baby Names — Ye (ये)
The first pada of Mula runs Sagittarius 0°00′ – 3°20′ and is assigned the syllable Ye. No established Indian name begins with it, so this page gives the three substitutes the tradition actually uses rather than four invented names.
- Pada
- first of four · Mula is nakshatra 19 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Ye ये
- Span
- Sagittarius 0°00′ – 3°20′ · 240°00′ – 243°20′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Sagittarius (Dhanu)
- Navamsa
- Aries (Mesha) — the 5th navamsa from Sagittarius · gandanta
- Names listed
- none — no established name begins this syllable
- Position in Sagittarius
- the first of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Ketu · presiding deity Nirriti · symbol Tied roots
Why Mula pada 1 has no name of its own
Yeshwant and Yeshu, sometimes listed, are the Marathi spelling of Yashwant and a form of Jesus. Mula's other three padas are the practical choice.
Sixteen of the 108 padas are in this position, and the tradition has an answer for it that does not involve inventing a word. The three substitutes are below, resolved into actual names for Mula pada 1 rather than left as rules.
Where the Sagittarius naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Sagittarius — Ye Yo Bha Bhi Bhu Dha Pha Dha Bhe — 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.
Mula pada 1 is the first of the nine, contributing Ye at 240°00′ – 243°20′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies a Sagittarius birth, so a family working from the list alone has seven usable syllables, while a pandit working from a birth time narrows it to the one this pada owns.
| # | Syllable | From | Names listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ye ये | Mula pada 1 — this pada | none |
| 2 | Yo यो | Mula pada 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Bha भा | Mula pada 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Bhi भी | Mula pada 4 | 2 |
| 5 | Bhu भू | Purva Ashadha pada 1 | 8 |
| 6 | Dha ध / ढ | Purva Ashadha pada 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Pha फ | Purva Ashadha pada 3 | 2 |
| 8 | Dha ध / ढ | Purva Ashadha pada 4 | 8 |
| 9 | Bhe भे | Uttara Ashadha pada 1 | none |
The three substitutes, for Mula pada 1
The 108 syllables come from dividing the zodiac rather than from asking what Sanskrit allows at the start of a word, so some land on sounds that begin few names or none. Where that happens the tradition substitutes, and three routes are recognised. Below, each is carried out for this pada rather than stated as a rule.
1 · Another pada of Mula
Another pada of the same nakshatra. The pada fixes the syllable, but the nakshatra as a whole is what the naming rite is built on, and using a sibling pada's syllable is the commonest accommodation. For Mula that means pada 2, whose syllable Yo carries 5 names, pada 3, whose syllable Bha carries 8 names and pada 4, whose syllable Bhi carries 2 names. A pandit will usually offer this first, because the naming rite is built on the nakshatra and all four padas belong to it.
2 · Another syllable of Sagittarius
Any syllable of the same Moon sign. Each rashi covers either two and a quarter nakshatras or nine padas, so this widens the choice to roughly nine syllables. Sagittarius holds nine pada syllables and seven of the other eight carry names, so a Mula pada 1 birth has no shortage of options inside its own Moon sign. The fullest are Bha (Mula pada 3), Bhu (Purva Ashadha pada 1) and Dha (Purva Ashadha pada 2) — 8 names apiece or close to it.
3 · A name of Nirriti
A name of the nakshatra's presiding deity, which sidesteps the syllable question altogether — Rudra for Ardra, Indra for Jyeshtha, Vishnu for Shravana. Mula is presided over by Nirriti, so this route is open regardless of what Ye does or does not begin, and it is the one families choose when they want the nakshatra named in the child rather than merely encoded in a sound. None of the three is treated as a lesser choice.
The other three padas of Mula
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the first quarter of Mula occupies Sagittarius 0°00′ – 3°20′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Mula itself: Ketu as lord, Nirriti as presiding deity, the tied roots as symbol, and a character read as investigative, root-seeking, intense. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Ye for pada 1 and Yo, Bha and Bhi for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 — this page | Ye ये | Sagittarius | Aries | none |
| Pada 2 | Yo यो | Sagittarius | Taurus | 5 |
| Pada 3 | Bha भा | Sagittarius | Gemini | 8 |
| Pada 4 | Bhi भी | Sagittarius | Cancer | 2 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Mula profile, are on the Mula 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 Mula pada 1 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Mula pada 1 — common questions
What letter should a Mula pada 1 baby's name start with?
Mula pada 1 is assigned the syllable Ye (ये), and no established Indian name begins with it. That is a fact about the script rather than a gap in a list, so the tradition substitutes instead of improvising: the commonest route is another pada of Mula — pada 2 carries Yo, pada 3 carries Bha and pada 4 carries Bhi, and names of Nirriti, the presiding deity of Mula, are always accepted.
How many names begin with Ye?
None in established use. Yeshwant and Yeshu, sometimes listed, are the Marathi spelling of Yashwant and a form of Jesus. Mula's other three padas are the practical choice. The pages that show four for this pada have padded the list, which is why this one does not.
Which rashi is Mula pada 1?
Sagittarius — Dhanu, entered at 240°00′ – 243°20′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Mula sits wholly inside Sagittarius, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 1 adds is its place in the sign — first of the nine Sagittarius syllables, Ye.
Why does the Sagittarius list print eight sounds for nine padas?
Because Dha falls twice in Sagittarius. Its nine padas are real and distinct — Mula pada 1 is the first of them — but two of them carry the dental and the retroflex form of the same syllable, and the same names serve both, so nine padas yield eight spellings. Sagittarius is the only sign where this happens, which is why a transcribed list looks like it has miscounted.
Does the navamsa change the name for Mula pada 1?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Mula pada 1 it is Ye. The navamsa — Aries here, the 5th navamsa counted from Sagittarius — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter. This pada is also gandanta, sitting on the junction between a water sign and a fire sign, for which a pandit will usually want the birth chart before fixing the rite.
Naming a Mula pada 1 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.