इन्दु

Indu

Sanskrit · noun

Edited by: Poorvaa Malhotra
Last edited: 2025-10-19

Meanings

1. Moon

Literal translation

Moon

1. Moon

1.a Moon celestial object

इदं हि सस्थावरजङ्गमाख्यं जगद्रवीन्द्वात्मकमाहुराद्याः । तस्योद्भवश्चापचयश्च दृष्टो भमण्डले तेन तदात्मकं तत् ॥२८॥

idaṃ hi sasthāvarajaṅgamākhyaṃ jagadravīndvātmakamāhurādyāḥ | tasyodbhavaścāpacayaśca dṛṣṭo bhamaṇḍale tena tadātmakaṃ tat ||28||

‘The authorities stated that this world of both the immovable and the movable, made up of the Sun and the Moon. Their birth and decay are through the cycle of the zodiac signs. Through that zodiac wheel the movable, and immovable alike are formed by the Sun and the Moon’

— Yavanajātaka Verse 1.28

Genre: astrological treatise Provenance: India Date: 4th-6th century CE

Pingree, David. The Yavanajātaka of Sphujidhvaja. Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 48. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 48

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Malhotra, P. (2025). इन्दु (Lemma #6361). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6361/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Malhotra, P. (2025). इन्दु (Lemma #6361). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6361/

MLA (9th)

Malhotra, P. (2025). इन्दु (Lemma #6361). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6361/

Harvard

Malhotra, P. (2025) इन्दु (Lemma #6361), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6361/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac6361,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2025},
	title = {इन्दु ({Lemma} #6361)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6361/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6361/},
}