Purva Phalguni पूर्व फाल्गुनी · pada 2 of 4
Purva Phalguni Pada 2 Baby Names — Ta (टा / ता)
8 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Leo 16°40′ – 20°00′ — the second quarter of Purva Phalguni, whose syllable is Ta. Moon sign Leo, navamsa Virgo.
- Pada
- second of four · Purva Phalguni is nakshatra 11 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Ta टा / ता
- Span
- Leo 16°40′ – 20°00′ · 136°40′ – 140°00′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Leo (Simha)
- Navamsa
- Virgo (Kanya) — the 2nd navamsa from Leo
- Names listed
- 4 boys' names, 4 girls' names
- Position in Leo
- the sixth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Venus · presiding deity Bhaga · symbol Front of bed
Names beginning Ta for Purva Phalguni pada 2
Purva Phalguni's second pada is the retroflex टा and Swati's fourth is the dental ता. Retroflex ट begins almost no Sanskrit word, so both use the dental names.
Ta is what the second quarter of Purva Phalguni is assigned — and it is assigned to Swati pada 4 as well, so that page lists the same names from a different point in the zodiac. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Leo 16°40′ – 20°00′, 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 |
|---|---|
| Tanmay | absorbed in, identified with |
| Tarun | young |
| Tanuj | a son |
| Taksh | one who shapes — a son of Bharata |
Girls' names — 4
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Tanvi | slender, delicate |
| Tara | a star |
| Tanuja | a daughter |
| Tapasya | austerity, disciplined effort |
Where the Leo naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Leo — Ma Mi Mu Me Mo Ta Ti Tu Te — 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.
Purva Phalguni pada 2 is the sixth of the nine, contributing Ta at 136°40′ – 140°00′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies a Leo birth, so a family working from the list alone has nine usable syllables, while a pandit working from a birth time narrows it to the one this pada owns.
| # | Syllable | From | Names listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ma मा | Magha pada 1 | 10 |
| 2 | Mi मी | Magha pada 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Mu मू | Magha pada 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Me मे | Magha pada 4 | 5 |
| 5 | Mo मो | Purva Phalguni pada 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Ta टा / ता | Purva Phalguni pada 2 — this pada | 8 |
| 7 | Ti टी / ती | Purva Phalguni pada 3 | 4 |
| 8 | Tu टू / तू | Purva Phalguni pada 4 | 5 |
| 9 | Te टे | Uttara Phalguni pada 1 | 3 |
The other three padas of Purva Phalguni
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the second quarter of Purva Phalguni occupies Leo 16°40′ – 20°00′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Purva Phalguni itself: Venus as lord, Bhaga as presiding deity, the front of bed as symbol, and a character read as pleasure-loving, generous, social. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Ta for pada 2 and Mo, Ti and Tu for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | Mo मो | Leo | Leo | 6 |
| Pada 2 — this page | Ta टा / ता | Leo | Virgo | 8 |
| Pada 3 | Ti टी / ती | Leo | Libra | 4 |
| Pada 4 | Tu टू / तू | Leo | Scorpio | 5 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Purva Phalguni profile, are on the Purva Phalguni 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 Purva Phalguni pada 2 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Purva Phalguni pada 2 — common questions
What letter should a Purva Phalguni pada 2 baby's name start with?
Ta, in Devanagari टा / ता. That syllable belongs to the second pada of Purva Phalguni specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Purva Phalguni's other three are Mo for pada 1, Ti for pada 3 and Tu for pada 4.
How many names begin with Ta?
8 names, 4 for boys and 4 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Ta carries, and so what the second pada of Purva Phalguni 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 Purva Phalguni pada 2 gets what Ta actually begins.
Which rashi is Purva Phalguni pada 2?
Leo — Simha, entered at 136°40′ – 140°00′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Purva Phalguni sits wholly inside Leo, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 2 adds is its place in the sign — sixth of the nine Leo syllables, Ta.
Are all nine Leo naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Leo is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Ta is not duplicated anywhere else in Ma Mi Mu Me Mo Ta Ti Tu Te. 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 Leo, Purva Phalguni pada 2 owns Ta outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Purva Phalguni pada 2?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Purva Phalguni pada 2 it is Ta. The navamsa — Virgo here, the 2nd navamsa counted from Leo — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Purva Phalguni 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.