Revati रेवती · pada 3 of 4
Revati Pada 3 Baby Names — Cha (च)
8 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Pisces 23°20′ – 26°40′ — the third quarter of Revati, whose syllable is Cha. Moon sign Pisces, navamsa Aquarius.
- Pada
- third of four · Revati is nakshatra 27 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Cha च
- Span
- Pisces 23°20′ – 26°40′ · 353°20′ – 356°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Pisces (Meena)
- Navamsa
- Aquarius (Kumbha) — the 12th navamsa from Pisces
- Names listed
- 4 boys' names, 4 girls' names
- Position in Pisces
- the eighth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Mercury · presiding deity Pushan · symbol Fish
Names beginning Cha for Revati pada 3
Cha is what the third quarter of Revati is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Pisces 23°20′ – 26°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 |
|---|---|
| Chandra | the moon |
| Charan | a foot — as in the feet of a guru |
| Chanakya | the Mauryan statesman |
| Chandresh | lord of the moon |
Girls' names — 4
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Charu | graceful, pleasing |
| Chandrika | moonlight |
| Charulata | a graceful creeper |
| Chandni | moonlight, in Hindi |
Where the Pisces naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Pisces — Di Du Tha Jha Tra De Do Cha Chi — 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.
Revati pada 3 is the eighth of the nine, contributing Cha at 353°20′ – 356°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 Pisces 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 | Di दि | Purva Bhadrapada pada 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Du दू | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Tha ठ / थ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 | none |
| 4 | Jha झ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 3 | 2 |
| 5 | Tra ञ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 | 7 |
| 6 | De दे | Revati pada 1 | 10 |
| 7 | Do डो / दो | Revati pada 2 | 1 |
| 8 | Cha च | Revati pada 3 — this pada | 8 |
| 9 | Chi ची | Revati pada 4 | 6 |
The other three padas of Revati
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the third quarter of Revati occupies Pisces 23°20′ – 26°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Revati itself: Mercury as lord, Pushan as presiding deity, the fish as symbol, and a character read as nurturing, journeying, compassionate. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Cha for pada 3 and De, Do and Chi for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | De दे | Pisces | Sagittarius | 10 |
| Pada 2 | Do डो / दो | Pisces | Capricorn | 1 |
| Pada 3 — this page | Cha च | Pisces | Aquarius | 8 |
| Pada 4 | Chi ची | Pisces | Pisces | 6 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Revati profile, are on the Revati 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 Revati pada 3 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Revati pada 3 — common questions
What letter should a Revati pada 3 baby's name start with?
Cha, in Devanagari च. That syllable belongs to the third pada of Revati specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Revati's other three are De for pada 1, Do for pada 2 and Chi for pada 4.
How many names begin with Cha?
8 names, 4 for boys and 4 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Cha carries, and so what the third pada of Revati 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 Revati pada 3 gets what Cha actually begins.
Which rashi is Revati pada 3?
Pisces — Meena, entered at 353°20′ – 356°40′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Revati sits wholly inside Pisces, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 3 adds is its place in the sign — eighth of the nine Pisces syllables, Cha.
Are all nine Pisces naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Pisces is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Cha is not duplicated anywhere else in Di Du Tha Jha Tra De Do Cha Chi. 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 Pisces, Revati pada 3 owns Cha outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Revati pada 3?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Revati pada 3 it is Cha. The navamsa — Aquarius here, the 12th navamsa counted from Pisces — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Revati pada 3 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.