Shravana श्रवण · pada 4 of 4
Shravana Pada 4 Baby Names — Gha (घ)
2 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′ — the fourth quarter of Shravana, whose syllable is Gha. Moon sign Capricorn, navamsa Cancer.
- Pada
- fourth of four · Shravana is nakshatra 22 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Gha घ
- Span
- Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′ · 290°00′ – 293°20′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Capricorn (Makara)
- Navamsa
- Cancer (Karka) — the 7th navamsa from Capricorn
- Names listed
- 2 boys' names, 0 girls' names
- Position in Capricorn
- the seventh of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Moon · presiding deity Vishnu · symbol Ear
Names beginning Gha for Shravana pada 4
घ is a thin initial. Ghanshyam carries most of it, and there is no established girl's name — Ghazal, sometimes listed here, is an Urdu poetic form used as a name rather than a Sanskrit one.
Gha is what the fourth quarter of Shravana is assigned — and it is assigned to Ardra pada 2 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 Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′, 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 — 2
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Ghanshyam | dark as a raincloud — Krishna |
| Ghatotkacha | Bhima's son in the Mahabharata |
There is no established girl's name beginning Gha in common use, so for a daughter born in Shravana pada 4 the three substitutes below apply exactly as they would for an empty pada. This is commoner than the printed lists suggest — 6 of the 108 padas carry boys’ names only and 7 carry girls’ names only.
Where the Capricorn naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Capricorn — Bho Ja Ji Ju Je Jo Gha Ga Gi — 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.
Shravana pada 4 is the seventh of the nine, contributing Gha at 290°00′ – 293°20′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies a Capricorn 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 | Bho भो | Uttara Ashadha pada 2 | 2 |
| 2 | Ja जा | Uttara Ashadha pada 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Ji जी | Uttara Ashadha pada 4 | 6 |
| 4 | Ju जु | Shravana pada 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Je जे | Shravana pada 2 | none |
| 6 | Jo जो | Shravana pada 3 | none |
| 7 | Gha घ | Shravana pada 4 — this pada | 2 |
| 8 | Ga गा | Dhanishta pada 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Gi गि | Dhanishta pada 2 | 6 |
The three substitutes, for Shravana pada 4
The 108 syllables come from dividing the zodiac rather than from asking what Sanskrit allows at the start of a word, so some land on sounds that begin few names or none. Where that happens the tradition substitutes, and three routes are recognised. Below, each is carried out for this pada rather than stated as a rule.
1 · Another pada of Shravana
Another pada of the same nakshatra. The pada fixes the syllable, but the nakshatra as a whole is what the naming rite is built on, and using a sibling pada's syllable is the commonest accommodation. For Shravana that means pada 1, whose syllable Ju carries 2 names. A pandit will usually offer this first, because the naming rite is built on the nakshatra and all four padas belong to it.
2 · Another syllable of Capricorn
Any syllable of the same Moon sign. Each rashi covers either two and a quarter nakshatras or nine padas, so this widens the choice to roughly nine syllables. Capricorn holds nine pada syllables and six of the other eight carry names, so a Shravana pada 4 birth has no shortage of options inside its own Moon sign. The fullest are Ja (Uttara Ashadha pada 3), Ga (Dhanishta pada 1) and Ji (Uttara Ashadha pada 4) — 8 names apiece or close to it.
3 · A name of Vishnu
A name of the nakshatra's presiding deity, which sidesteps the syllable question altogether — Rudra for Ardra, Indra for Jyeshtha, Vishnu for Shravana. Shravana is presided over by Vishnu, so this route is open regardless of what Gha does or does not begin, and it is the one families choose when they want the nakshatra named in the child rather than merely encoded in a sound. None of the three is treated as a lesser choice.
The other three padas of Shravana
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the fourth quarter of Shravana occupies Capricorn 20°00′ – 23°20′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Shravana itself: Moon as lord, Vishnu as presiding deity, the ear as symbol, and a character read as listening, learning, connecting. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Gha for pada 4 and Ju, Je and Jo for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | Ju जु | Capricorn | Aries | 2 |
| Pada 2 | Je जे | Capricorn | Taurus | none |
| Pada 3 | Jo जो | Capricorn | Gemini | none |
| Pada 4 — this page | Gha घ | Capricorn | Cancer | 2 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Shravana profile, are on the Shravana 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 Shravana pada 4 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Shravana pada 4 — common questions
What letter should a Shravana pada 4 baby's name start with?
Gha, in Devanagari घ. That syllable belongs to the fourth pada of Shravana specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Shravana's other three are Ju for pada 1, Je for pada 2 and Jo for pada 3.
How many names begin with Gha?
2 names, 2 for boys and 0 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Gha carries, and so what the fourth pada of Shravana 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 Shravana pada 4 gets what Gha actually begins. There is no established girl's name beginning Gha, so the substitutes below apply for a daughter.
Which rashi is Shravana pada 4?
Capricorn — Makara, entered at 290°00′ – 293°20′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Shravana sits wholly inside Capricorn, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 4 adds is its place in the sign — seventh of the nine Capricorn syllables, Gha.
Are all nine Capricorn naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Capricorn is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Gha is not duplicated anywhere else in Bho Ja Ji Ju Je Jo Gha Ga Gi. 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 Capricorn, Shravana pada 4 owns Gha outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Shravana pada 4?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Shravana pada 4 it is Gha. The navamsa — Cancer here, the 7th navamsa counted from Capricorn — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Shravana 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.