दिनकृत्

dinakṛt

Sanskrit · noun

variant दिनकर : dinakara

Edited by: Poorvaa Malhotra
Last edited: 2025-10-26

Meanings

1. Sun

Literal translation

Sun

1. Sun

1.a Sun celestial object

पूर्वार्धमोजेषु गृहेषु सौर्यं तेष्वेव पश्चार्धमुशन्ति चान्द्रम् । युग्मेषु पूर्वार्धविभुः शशाङ्कः पश्चार्धनाथो दिनकृत् समेषु ॥३१॥

pūrvārdhamojeṣu gṛheṣu sauryaṃ teṣveva paścārdhamuśanti cāndram | yugmeṣu pūrvārdhavibhuḥ śaśāṅkaḥ paścārdhanātho dinakṛt sameṣu ||31||

‘In the odd signs the Sun governs the first half, and the Moon governs the second half of each house (sign). Among the even signs the Moon rules the first half, and the Sun rules the latter half’

— Yavanajātaka 1.31

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 49

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Malhotra, P. (2025). दिनकृत् (Lemma #6368). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6368/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Malhotra, P. (2025). दिनकृत् (Lemma #6368). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6368/

MLA (9th)

Malhotra, P. (2025). दिनकृत् (Lemma #6368). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6368/

Harvard

Malhotra, P. (2025) दिनकृत् (Lemma #6368), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6368/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac6368,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2025},
	title = {दिनकृत् ({Lemma} #6368)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6368/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6368/},
}