Uttara Bhadrapada उत्तर भाद्रपद · pada 2 of 4
Uttara Bhadrapada Pada 2 Baby Names — Tha (ठ / थ)
The second pada of Uttara Bhadrapada runs Pisces 6°40′ – 10°00′ and is assigned the syllable Tha. No established Indian name begins with it, so this page gives the three substitutes the tradition actually uses rather than four invented names.
- Pada
- second of four · Uttara Bhadrapada is nakshatra 26 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Tha ठ / थ
- Span
- Pisces 6°40′ – 10°00′ · 336°40′ – 340°00′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Pisces (Meena)
- Navamsa
- Virgo (Kanya) — the 7th navamsa from Pisces
- Names listed
- none — no established name begins this syllable
- Position in Pisces
- the third of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Saturn · presiding deity Ahirbudhnya · symbol Twin
Why Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 has no name of its own
Hasta's fourth pada is ठ and Uttara Bhadrapada's second is थ. Neither begins an established Sanskrit given name — Thakur is a title, and Tharun and Thanuj are Tarun and Tanuj in southern spelling, which belong to the Ta padas. Another pada of the same nakshatra is the usual substitute.
Sixteen of the 108 padas are in this position, and the tradition has an answer for it that does not involve inventing a word. The three substitutes are below, resolved into actual names for Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 rather than left as rules.
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.
Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 is the third of the nine, contributing Tha at 336°40′ – 340°00′ 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 — this pada | 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 | 8 |
| 9 | Chi ची | Revati pada 4 | 6 |
The three substitutes, for Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2
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 Uttara Bhadrapada
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 Uttara Bhadrapada that means pada 1, whose syllable Du carries 3 names, pada 3, whose syllable Jha carries 2 names and pada 4, whose syllable Tra carries 7 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 Pisces
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. Pisces holds nine pada syllables and eight of the other eight carry names, so an Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 birth has no shortage of options inside its own Moon sign. The fullest are De (Revati pada 1), Di (Purva Bhadrapada pada 4) and Cha (Revati pada 3) — 10 names apiece or close to it.
3 · A name of Ahirbudhnya
A name of the nakshatra's presiding deity, which sidesteps the syllable question altogether — Rudra for Ardra, Indra for Jyeshtha, Vishnu for Shravana. Uttara Bhadrapada is presided over by Ahirbudhnya, so this route is open regardless of what Tha 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 Uttara Bhadrapada
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the second quarter of Uttara Bhadrapada occupies Pisces 6°40′ – 10°00′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Uttara Bhadrapada itself: Saturn as lord, Ahirbudhnya as presiding deity, the twin as symbol, and a character read as deep, wise, controlled. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Tha for pada 2 and Du, Jha and Tra for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | Du दू | Pisces | Leo | 3 |
| Pada 2 — this page | Tha ठ / थ | Pisces | Virgo | none |
| Pada 3 | Jha झ | Pisces | Libra | 2 |
| Pada 4 | Tra ञ | Pisces | Scorpio | 7 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Uttara Bhadrapada profile, are on the Uttara Bhadrapada 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 Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 — common questions
What letter should an Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 baby's name start with?
Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 is assigned the syllable Tha (ठ / थ), and no established Indian name begins with it. That is a fact about the script rather than a gap in a list, so the tradition substitutes instead of improvising: the commonest route is another pada of Uttara Bhadrapada — pada 1 carries Du, pada 3 carries Jha and pada 4 carries Tra, and names of Ahirbudhnya, the presiding deity of Uttara Bhadrapada, are always accepted.
How many names begin with Tha?
None in established use. Hasta's fourth pada is ठ and Uttara Bhadrapada's second is थ. Neither begins an established Sanskrit given name — Thakur is a title, and Tharun and Thanuj are Tarun and Tanuj in southern spelling, which belong to the Ta padas. Another pada of the same nakshatra is the usual substitute. The pages that show four for this pada have padded the list, which is why this one does not.
Which rashi is Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2?
Pisces — Meena, entered at 336°40′ – 340°00′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Uttara Bhadrapada sits wholly inside Pisces, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 2 adds is its place in the sign — third of the nine Pisces syllables, Tha.
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 Tha 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, Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 owns Tha outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 it is Tha. The navamsa — Virgo here, the 7th navamsa counted from Pisces — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming an Uttara Bhadrapada 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.