गुरोः

Guru

Sanskrit · noun

variant गुरु : Guru

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

Meanings

1. Teacher

Literal translation

Jupiter

1. Teacher

1.a Teacher 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). गुरोः (Lemma #6387). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6387/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Malhotra, P. (2025). गुरोः (Lemma #6387). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6387/

MLA (9th)

Malhotra, P. (2025). गुरोः (Lemma #6387). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6387/

Harvard

Malhotra, P. (2025) गुरोः (Lemma #6387), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6387/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac6387,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2025},
	title = {गुरोः ({Lemma} #6387)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6387/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6387/},
}