मीन

mīna
Sanskrit · noun
Last edited: 2025-09-30
Meanings
Literal translation
fish
Categories
zodiac sign
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. Pisces

1.a Pisces zodiac sign

जले तु मीनद्वयमन्त्यराशिः कालस्य पादौ कथितौ वरिष्ठैः।

jale tu mīnadvayam antyarāśiḥ kālasya pādau kathitau variṣṭhaiḥ|

‘The last sign is a pair of fish in water. They are said by the excellent [sages] to be the feet of Time.’

— Vṛddhayavanajātaka 1.15ab

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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मीन (Lemma #6352). (2025). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6352/
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@misc{zodiac6352,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	year = {2025},
	title = {मीन ({Lemma} #6352)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6352/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6352/},
}