Shatabhisha शतभिषा · pada 1 of 4
Shatabhisha Pada 1 Baby Names — Go (गो)
7 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Aquarius 6°40′ – 10°00′ — the first quarter of Shatabhisha, whose syllable is Go. Moon sign Aquarius, navamsa Sagittarius.
- Pada
- first of four · Shatabhisha is nakshatra 24 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Go गो
- Span
- Aquarius 6°40′ – 10°00′ · 306°40′ – 310°00′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Aquarius (Kumbha)
- Navamsa
- Sagittarius (Dhanu) — the 11th navamsa from Aquarius
- Names listed
- 4 boys' names, 3 girls' names
- Position in Aquarius
- the third of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Rahu · presiding deity Varuna · symbol Empty circle
Names beginning Go for Shatabhisha pada 1
Go is what the first quarter of Shatabhisha is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Aquarius 6°40′ – 10°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 |
|---|---|
| Govind | finder of cows — Krishna |
| Gopal | protector of cows — Krishna |
| Gokul | the village of Krishna's childhood |
| Gorakh | the Nath yogi Gorakhnath |
Girls' names — 3
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Gopi | a cowherd girl of Vrindavan |
| Gomati | possessing cattle — also a river |
| Gowri | the southern spelling of Gauri |
Where the Aquarius naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Aquarius — Gu Ge Go Sa Si Su Se So Da — 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.
Shatabhisha pada 1 is the third of the nine, contributing Go at 306°40′ – 310°00′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies an Aquarius 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 | Gu गु | Dhanishta pada 3 | 4 |
| 2 | Ge गे | Dhanishta pada 4 | none |
| 3 | Go गो | Shatabhisha pada 1 — this pada | 7 |
| 4 | Sa सा | Shatabhisha pada 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Si सि | Shatabhisha pada 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Su सु | Shatabhisha pada 4 | 10 |
| 7 | Se से | Purva Bhadrapada pada 1 | 1 |
| 8 | So सो | Purva Bhadrapada pada 2 | 6 |
| 9 | Da द | Purva Bhadrapada pada 3 | 10 |
The other three padas of Shatabhisha
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the first quarter of Shatabhisha occupies Aquarius 6°40′ – 10°00′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Shatabhisha itself: Rahu as lord, Varuna as presiding deity, the empty circle as symbol, and a character read as healing, mystical, secretive. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Go for pada 1 and Sa, Si and Su for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 — this page | Go गो | Aquarius | Sagittarius | 7 |
| Pada 2 | Sa सा | Aquarius | Capricorn | 8 |
| Pada 3 | Si सि | Aquarius | Aquarius | 5 |
| Pada 4 | Su सु | Aquarius | Pisces | 10 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Shatabhisha profile, are on the Shatabhisha 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 Shatabhisha pada 1 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Shatabhisha pada 1 — common questions
What letter should a Shatabhisha pada 1 baby's name start with?
Go, in Devanagari गो. That syllable belongs to the first pada of Shatabhisha specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Shatabhisha's other three are Sa for pada 2, Si for pada 3 and Su for pada 4.
How many names begin with Go?
7 names, 4 for boys and 3 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Go carries, and so what the first pada of Shatabhisha 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 Shatabhisha pada 1 gets what Go actually begins.
Which rashi is Shatabhisha pada 1?
Aquarius — Kumbha, entered at 306°40′ – 310°00′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Shatabhisha sits wholly inside Aquarius, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 1 adds is its place in the sign — third of the nine Aquarius syllables, Go.
Are all nine Aquarius naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Aquarius is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Go is not duplicated anywhere else in Gu Ge Go Sa Si Su Se So Da. 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 Aquarius, Shatabhisha pada 1 owns Go outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Shatabhisha pada 1?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Shatabhisha pada 1 it is Go. The navamsa — Sagittarius here, the 11th navamsa counted from Aquarius — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Shatabhisha 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.