भौमः

bhauma

Sanskrit · noun

Edited by: Poorvaa Malhotra
Last edited: 2025-12-13

Meanings

1. earthly

Literal translation

Planet Mars

1. earthly

1.a earthly planet

भौमस्य पंचार्कसुतस्य तद्वदष्टौ गुरोः सप्त बुधस्य भागाः । शुक्रस्य पंचौजगृहेषु चैषां युग्मेषु चैते स्युरपक्रमेण ॥४२॥

bhaumasya paṃcārkasutasya tadvadaṣṭau guroḥ sapta budhasya bhāgāḥ | śukrasya paṃcaujagṛheṣu caiṣāṃ yugmeṣu caite syurapakrameṇa ||42||

‘Mars has five portions; similarly, the son of the Sun (Saturn) has five. Jupiter has eight portions, and Mercury has seven. Venus has five portions, and all these are assigned respectively in odd zodiac signs . Among the even zodiac signs those should be reverse in order’

— Yavanajātaka v.1.42

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 50

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Malhotra, P. (2025). भौमः (Lemma #6386). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6386/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Malhotra, P. (2025). भौमः (Lemma #6386). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6386/

MLA (9th)

Malhotra, P. (2025). भौमः (Lemma #6386). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6386/

Harvard

Malhotra, P. (2025) भौमः (Lemma #6386), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6386/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac6386,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2025},
	title = {भौमः ({Lemma} #6386)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6386/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6386/},
}