Uttara Bhadrapada — astrology wiki

Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit uttara, later, with bhadra, auspicious, and pada, foot; Bhādrapadā names the pair.

The paired older name Proṣṭhapadā concerns a stool's foot. That furniture association should not replace Bhādrapadā's distinct wording or become an automatic prediction about funerals.

Monier-Williams (1899): bhadra / bhadrapadā — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Monier-Williams (1899): proṣṭha / proṣṭhapada — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Monier-Williams (1899): uttarabhādrapadā — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗

How we know · epistemology

Lexical attestation, ritual tradition and a stated coordinate convention

Dictionary evidence supports the names and the deity's depth imagery. An inner-life reading is an explicitly symbolic use of that evidence, not a finding about a person's mind.

Monier-Williams (1899): bhadra / bhadrapadā — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Monier-Williams (1899): proṣṭha / proṣṭhapada — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Monier-Williams (1899): uttarabhādrapadā — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa YV 32–35 / RV 25–28, in Indian Astronomy: A Source-book §12.10.1 ↗Monier-Williams (1899): ahirbudhnya — University of Hyderabad digital edition ↗Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā 2.13.20 — Sanskrit transcription ↗

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