धन्विन्

dhanvin
Sanskrit · noun
Last edited: 2025-09-30
Meanings
Literal translation
bow-bearer, archer
Categories
zodiac sign
Related Lemmata 8 ›

1. Sagittarius

1.a Sagittarius zodiac sign

धन्वी मनुष्यो हयपश्चिमार्धस्तमाहुरूरू भुवनप्रणेतुः।

dhanvī manuṣyo hayapaścimārdhas tam āhur ūrū bhuvanapraṇetuḥ|

‘A man carrying a bow with the rear half of a horse [is the ninth sign]. They say this is the thigh of the Maker of the World.’

— Vṛddhayavanajātaka 1.12ab

Genre: astrological treatise Provenance: India Date: ca. 300–325 CE

Mak, Bill M. 2018. “The First Two Chapters of Mīnarāja’s Vṛddhayavanajātaka.” Zinbun 48: 1–31.

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APA (7th)
धन्विन् (Lemma #6349). (2025). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6349/
Chicago (Author-Date)
धन्विन् (Lemma #6349). (2025). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6349/
MLA (9th)
धन्विन् (Lemma #6349). (2025). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6349/
Harvard
धन्विन् (Lemma #6349) (2025) The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6349/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6349,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	year = {2025},
	title = {धन्विन् ({Lemma} #6349)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6349/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6349/},
}