शुक्र
śukra

Sanskrit noun
loaned from Sanskrit

Last edited: 2025-12-13
Primary meaning Venus
Literal translation Bright
Edited by
Venus 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

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APA (7th)
Malhotra, P. (2025). शुक्र (Lemma #6388). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6388/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Malhotra, P. (2025). शुक्र (Lemma #6388). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6388/
MLA (9th)
Malhotra, P. (2025). शुक्र (Lemma #6388). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6388/
Harvard
Malhotra, P. (2025) शुक्र (Lemma #6388), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6388/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6388,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Malhotra, Poorvaa},
	year = {2025},
	title = {शुक्र ({Lemma} #6388)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6388/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6388/},
}