Purva Phalguni — astrology wiki

Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit pūrva, earlier, with Phalgunī.

Pūrva distinguishes the earlier member of the Phalguni pair. Monier-Williams records phalguna as reddish and both Phalgunī and Phālgunī as mansion forms. The name’s lexical color sense is separate from later relationship symbolism.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: pūrva, pūrvaphalgunī (University of Hyderabad) ↗Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: phalguna, phalgunī, phālgunī (University of Hyderabad) ↗

How we know · epistemology

Named textual convention with a historical variant

The Phalguni deity assignments differ across the cited texts. Bhaga here identifies the chosen convention; it does not turn a Moon position into evidence about marriage or fertility.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: pūrva, pūrvaphalgunī (University of Hyderabad) ↗Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: phalguna, phalgunī, phālgunī (University of Hyderabad) ↗Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa, Yajurvedic verses 32–35 / Rigvedic verses 25–28, in Indian Astronomy: A Source-book §12.10.1 ↗Nakshatra Suktam: explicitly labeled Phalguni deity sequence (Vaidika Vignanam) ↗Taittirīya Nakshatra Sukta, verses 8–17 (Sanskrit Documents) ↗

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