Rohini रोहिणी · pada 2 of 4
Rohini Pada 2 Baby Names — Va (वा)
10 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′ — the second quarter of Rohini, whose syllable is Va. Moon sign Taurus, navamsa Taurus.
- Pada
- second of four · Rohini is nakshatra 4 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Va वा
- Span
- Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′ · 43°20′ – 46°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Taurus (Vrishabha)
- Navamsa
- Taurus (Vrishabha) — the 1st navamsa from Taurus · vargottama
- Names listed
- 5 boys' names, 5 girls' names
- Position in Taurus
- the fifth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Moon · presiding deity Brahma · symbol Cart
Names beginning Va for Rohini pada 2
Va is what the second quarter of Rohini is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Taurus 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 |
|---|---|
| Varun | the Vedic lord of the waters |
| Vasu | wealth — also the eight Vasus |
| Vaibhav | splendour, prosperity |
| Vatsal | affectionate |
| Vansh | a lineage |
Girls' names — 5
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Varsha | rain |
| Vasundhara | the earth, holder of treasure |
| Vandana | praise, salutation |
| Vaishnavi | belonging to Vishnu |
| Vanya | of the forest |
Where the Taurus naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Taurus — I U E O Va Vi Vu Ve Vo — 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.
Rohini pada 2 is the fifth of the nine, contributing Va at 43°20′ – 46°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 Taurus 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 | I इ | Krittika pada 2 | 9 |
| 2 | U उ | Krittika pada 3 | 10 |
| 3 | E ए | Krittika pada 4 | 7 |
| 4 | O ओ | Rohini pada 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Va वा | Rohini pada 2 — this pada | 10 |
| 6 | Vi वी | Rohini pada 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Vu वु | Rohini pada 4 | none |
| 8 | Ve वे | Mrigashira pada 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Vo वो | Mrigashira pada 2 | none |
The other three padas of Rohini
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the second quarter of Rohini occupies Taurus 13°20′ – 16°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Rohini itself: Moon as lord, Brahma as presiding deity, the cart as symbol, and a character read as sensual, fertile, artistic. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Va for pada 2 and O, Vi and Vu for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | O ओ | Taurus | Aries | 7 |
| Pada 2 — this page | Va वा | Taurus | Taurus | 10 |
| Pada 3 | Vi वी | Taurus | Gemini | 11 |
| Pada 4 | Vu वु | Taurus | Cancer | none |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Rohini profile, are on the Rohini 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 Rohini pada 2 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Rohini pada 2 — common questions
What letter should a Rohini pada 2 baby's name start with?
Va, in Devanagari वा. That syllable belongs to the second pada of Rohini specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Rohini's other three are O for pada 1, Vi for pada 3 and Vu for pada 4.
How many names begin with Va?
10 names, 5 for boys and 5 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Va carries, and so what the second pada of Rohini 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 Rohini pada 2 gets what Va actually begins.
Which rashi is Rohini pada 2?
Taurus — Vrishabha, entered at 43°20′ – 46°40′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Rohini sits wholly inside Taurus, 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 Taurus syllables, Va.
Are all nine Taurus naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Taurus is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Va is not duplicated anywhere else in I U E O Va Vi Vu Ve Vo. 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 Taurus, Rohini pada 2 owns Va outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Rohini pada 2?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Rohini pada 2 it is Va. The navamsa — Taurus here, the 1st navamsa counted from Taurus — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter. This pada is vargottama: Taurus in the rashi chart and Taurus again in the navamsa, which is traditionally read as the sign's qualities doubling.
Naming a Rohini 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.