Uttara Ashadha — astrology wiki

Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit uttara, later, with aṣāḍhā, the paired mansion name.

The pair shares the not-to-be-overcome sense of aṣāḍha. Uttara marks the later member; 'later victory' is a symbolic extension rather than the whole word's literal definition.

Monier-Williams (1899): aṣāḍha / aṣāḍhā — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Monier-Williams (1899): uttara / uttarāṣāḍhā — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗

How we know · epistemology

Lexical attestation, ritual tradition and a stated coordinate convention

The paired name and collective deity are historical attestations. A reading about cooperation is an interpretive use of them, not an observed effect of lunar longitude.

Monier-Williams (1899): aṣāḍha / aṣāḍhā — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Monier-Williams (1899): uttara / uttarāṣāḍhā — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa YV 32–35 / RV 25–28, in Indian Astronomy: A Source-book §12.10.1 ↗Rigveda 7.35: Viśvedevas — R. T. H. Griffith translation ↗

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