Pushya पुष्य · pada 4 of 4
Pushya Pada 4 Baby Names — Da (द)
10 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Cancer 13°20′ – 16°40′ — the fourth quarter of Pushya, whose syllable is Da. Moon sign Cancer, navamsa Scorpio.
- Pada
- fourth of four · Pushya is nakshatra 8 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Da द
- Span
- Cancer 13°20′ – 16°40′ · 103°20′ – 106°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Cancer (Karka)
- Navamsa
- Scorpio (Vrishchika) — the 5th navamsa from Cancer
- Names listed
- 5 boys' names, 5 girls' names
- Position in Cancer
- the fifth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Saturn · presiding deity Brihaspati · symbol Cow's udder
Names beginning Da for Pushya pada 4
Da is what the fourth quarter of Pushya is assigned — and it is assigned to Purva Bhadrapada pada 3 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 Cancer 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 — 5
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Daksh | able, skilled — a Prajapati |
| Darshan | sight, vision |
| Damodar | bound with a rope at the waist — Krishna |
| Dayal | compassionate |
| Darpan | a mirror |
Girls' names — 5
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Daksha | skilled, capable |
| Damini | lightning |
| Darshana | vision, philosophy |
| Daya | compassion |
| Damayanti | the wife of Nala |
Where the Cancer naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Cancer — Hi Hu He Ho Da Di Du De Do — 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.
Pushya pada 4 is the fifth of the nine, contributing Da at 103°20′ – 106°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 Cancer 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 | Hi ही | Punarvasu pada 4 | 7 |
| 2 | Hu हु | Pushya pada 1 | 1 |
| 3 | He हे | Pushya pada 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Ho हो | Pushya pada 3 | none |
| 5 | Da द | Pushya pada 4 — this pada | 10 |
| 6 | Di डी | Ashlesha pada 1 | 9 |
| 7 | Du डू | Ashlesha pada 2 | 3 |
| 8 | De डे | Ashlesha pada 3 | 10 |
| 9 | Do डो / दो | Ashlesha pada 4 | 1 |
The other three padas of Pushya
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the fourth quarter of Pushya occupies Cancer 13°20′ – 16°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Pushya itself: Saturn as lord, Brihaspati as presiding deity, the cow's udder as symbol, and a character read as nourishing, devotional, protective. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Da for pada 4 and Hu, He and Ho for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | Hu हु | Cancer | Leo | 1 |
| Pada 2 | He हे | Cancer | Virgo | 7 |
| Pada 3 | Ho हो | Cancer | Libra | none |
| Pada 4 — this page | Da द | Cancer | Scorpio | 10 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Pushya profile, are on the Pushya 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 Pushya pada 4 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Pushya pada 4 — common questions
What letter should a Pushya pada 4 baby's name start with?
Da, in Devanagari द. That syllable belongs to the fourth pada of Pushya specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Pushya's other three are Hu for pada 1, He for pada 2 and Ho for pada 3.
How many names begin with Da?
10 names, 5 for boys and 5 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Da carries, and so what the fourth pada of Pushya 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 Pushya pada 4 gets what Da actually begins.
Which rashi is Pushya pada 4?
Cancer — Karka, entered at 103°20′ – 106°40′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Pushya sits wholly inside Cancer, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 4 adds is its place in the sign — fifth of the nine Cancer syllables, Da.
Are all nine Cancer naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Cancer is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Da is not duplicated anywhere else in Hi Hu He Ho Da Di Du De Do. 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 Cancer, Pushya pada 4 owns Da outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Pushya pada 4?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Pushya pada 4 it is Da. The navamsa — Scorpio here, the 5th navamsa counted from Cancer — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Pushya 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.