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Names starting with Ch (च): 4 names from the scriptures

2 for boys and 2 for girls. With each name: its meaning, its number in the text, and the nakshatra pada and rashi of its first syllable.

In short

Here are 4 names starting with Ch (च): 2 for boys and 2 for girls. Each comes from the Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), Vishnu Sahasranama, Lalita Sahasranama, Durga Ashtottara Shatanama and was checked in two separate editions; with each name are its meaning, its number in the text, and the nakshatra pada and rashi of its first syllable by the Avakahada chakra (Pisces (Meena)).

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Boys’ names starting with Ch (च) (2)

  • चंदन

    चन्दनChandanBoy

    The sandal tree; whatever is the finest of its kind

    Source
    Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), name 670 (Gita Press); Pune edition, Anushasana Parva 17.107
    Deity
    Shiva
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 386
    First syllable
    चा → Revati pada 3 → Pisces (Meena)

  • चंद्रांशु

    चन्द्रांशुChandranshuBoy

    Like the moon’s rays, cooling minds scorched by the heat of worldly life

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 281
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    चा → Revati pada 3 → Pisces (Meena)

Girls’ names starting with Ch (च) (2)

  • चारुहासा

    CharuhasaGirl

    Of a beautiful smile

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 242
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    चा → Revati pada 3 → Pisces (Meena)

  • चित्रा

    ChitraGirl

    Wonderful, bright, many-hued

    Source
    Durga Ashtottara Shatanama, name 13 (Gita Press)
    Deity
    Durga
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 396; Apte p. 493
    First syllable
    ची → Revati pada 4 → Pisces (Meena)

Names with Ch (च): questions and answers

What is the rashi of a name starting with Ch (च)?

In the Avakahada chakra the rashi of the nakshatra pada a name’s first syllable belongs to is the name rashi. The first syllables of the names on this page: चा (Revati pada 3, Pisces (Meena)): चंदन, चंद्रांशु, चारुहासा. ची (Revati pada 4, Pisces (Meena)): चित्रा. This is the name rashi; the birth rashi is the Moon’s rashi at birth, found from the birth panchang.

What does the number next to the source mean?

It is the name’s place in the text: 1 to 1000 in the Vishnu and Lalita Sahasranamas, 1 to 1008 in the Mahabharata’s Shiva Sahasranama as the Gita Press counts it, and 1 to 108 in the Durga Ashtottara Shatanama. Where a name comes more than once, the first number is given.

Must the name begin with the syllable of the birth nakshatra?

Many families keep the custom of giving a name that begins with the syllable of the Moon’s nakshatra pada at birth. That is a matter of family custom. This page gives the pada of each name’s first syllable so the match can be made; the birth pada comes from the birth panchang. Ask your family purohit about the naming rite itself.

Sources

  1. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  2. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, Pune critical edition (BORI), Anushasana Parva, sanskritdocuments.org
  3. Vishnu Sahasranama: Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  4. Vishnu Sahasranama: Vishnu Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  5. Vishnu Sahasranama: The Vishnu Sahasranama with the Bhashya of Sri Sankaracharya, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (Theosophical Publishing House, 1927)
  6. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  7. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranama with Bhaskararaya’s Commentary, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (2nd ed., 1925)
  8. Durga Ashtottara Shatanama: Sachitra Shri Durga Saptashati, tr. Ramnarayan Dutt Shastri ‘Ram’ (Gita Press, 1961): numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  9. Durga Ashtottara Shatanama: Shri Durga Ashtottarashatanama Stotram and Namavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  10. Name syllables: Brihad Avakahada Chakram, Shatapada Chakra verses 9–15; Pt. Sitarama Sharma, Ati Brihat Avakahada Chakram (1932), pp. 22–26

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