तारा
tārā

Sanskrit noun
loaned from Sanskrit

Last edited: 2025-11-22
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बुधास्फुजिद्भूमिजजीवसौराः संज्ञाभिरेण्ड क्रमशो निकर्षीत् । द्विर्द्विर्गृहेशाः प्रथितास्ततोऽमी ताराधिनाथस्य दिवाकरस्य ॥३३॥

budhāsphujidbhūmijajīvasaurāḥ saṃjñābhireṇḍa kramaśo nikarṣīt | dvirdvirgṛheśāḥ prathitāstato'mī tārādhināthasya divākarasya ||33||

‘Budha (Mercury), Śukra (Venus), Bhauma (Mars), Jīva (Jupiter), and Saura (Saturn) — these planets, named in this order, are each known as the lords of two zodiacal signs. They are planetary rulers of the Moon and sun’

— Yavanajātaka v.1.33

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

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APA (7th)
Malhotra, P. (2025). तारा (Lemma #6377). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6377/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Malhotra, P. (2025). तारा (Lemma #6377). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6377/
MLA (9th)
Malhotra, P. (2025). तारा (Lemma #6377). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6377/
Harvard
Malhotra, P. (2025) तारा (Lemma #6377), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6377/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6377,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2025},
	title = {तारा ({Lemma} #6377)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6377/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6377/},
}