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Each Nakshatra is also divided into quarters or padas of 3°20’, and the below table lists the appropriate starting sound to name the child. The 27 nakshatras, each with 4 padas, give 108, which is the number of beads in a Japa mala, indicating all the elements (ansh) of Vishnu:
Rohini (रोहिणी) is the goddess of stars in Hinduism [1] and the favorite consort of Chandra, the moon god. She is one of the 27 daughters of the prajapati Daksha and his wife Asikni . As "the red goddess" (also known as Rohini Devi ), she is the personification of the orange-red star Aldebaran , the brightest star in the Taurus ...
Nakshatra (Sanskrit: नक्षत्रम्, romanized: Nakṣatram) is the term for Lunar mansion in Hindu astrology and Buddhist astrology. A nakshatra is one of 27 (sometimes also 28) sectors along the ecliptic. Their names are related to a prominent star or asterisms in or near the respective sectors.
Rohini gives birth to Balarama. [5] Krishna, the eighth child of Devaki, was exchanged with the daughter of Nanda and Yashoda in secrecy. Yashoda (foster-mother of Krishna) and Rohini play an important nurturing Krishna and Balarama in their childhood. [5] After Vasudeva is freed by Krishna and Balarama, Rohini gives birth to a daughter ...
Rohini Godbole (1952–2024) – particle physicist. Jyoti Gogte (1956-) – academician. P. A. Inamdar (1945-) – educationalist. B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) – yoga teacher; developed internationally popular Iyengar Yoga. Anandibai Joshi (1865–1887) [24] – first Indian and Hindu woman to get a medical degree from a foreign university ...
Rohini (nakshatra), a lunar mansion in Indian astronomy corresponding to Aldebaran; Rohini (satellite), a series of Indian space satellites; Rohini sounding rocket series, Indian rockets developed for meteorological and atmospheric study purposes; Rohini River, in South Central Nepal, tributary to the West Rapti River
Nakshatravana, also called Nakshatravanam or Nakshatravan, is a sacred grove in Sringeri, Karnataka, India.It is associated with the Sringeri Sharada Peetham monastery, and consists of 27 trees that are related to 27 Nakshatras of Indian Astrology.
Tiruppan Alvar was born in Purthurmadhi year, Kaarthigai (Nov-Dec) month, on a Wednesday in the Rohini Nakshatra (star) in a small village of Alagapuri near Srirangam in the 8th or 9th century CE. [14] Paanars are a community of musicians and traditional song makers who are capable of moving their audiences to states of ecstasy and bliss. [15]