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Names starting with H (ह): 5 names from the scriptures

4 for boys and 1 for girls. With each name: its meaning, its number in the text, and the nakshatra pada and rashi of its first syllable.

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Here are 5 names starting with H (ह): 4 for boys and 1 for girls. Each comes from the Lalita Sahasranama, Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), Vishnu Sahasranama 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 (Gemini (Mithuna), Cancer (Karka)).

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Boys’ names starting with H (ह) (4)

  • हर

    HarBoy

    Who takes away sorrow and sin

    Source
    Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), name 106 (Gita Press); Pune edition, Anushasana Parva 17.41
    Deity
    Shiva
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 1289; Apte p. 1165
    First syllable
    हा → Punarvasu pada 3 → Gemini (Mithuna)

  • हरि

    HariBoy

    Who takes away worldly bondage together with its cause

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 650
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    हा → Punarvasu pada 3 → Gemini (Mithuna)

  • हृषीकेश

    HrishikeshBoy

    Lord of the senses (hrishika)

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 47
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    हृ is a conjunct: its first letter, ह: हा → Punarvasu pada 3 → Gemini (Mithuna)

  • हेमांग

    हेमाङ्गHemangBoy

    With limbs like gold (the golden person seen in the sun)

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 738
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    हे → Pushya pada 2 → Cancer (Karka)

Girls’ names starting with H (ह) (1)

  • हंसिनी

    HansiniGirl

    The swan; joined with hamsa, the ajapa mantra

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 456
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    हा → Punarvasu pada 3 → Gemini (Mithuna)

Names with H (ह): questions and answers

What is the rashi of a name starting with H (ह)?

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: हा (Punarvasu pada 3, Gemini (Mithuna)): हंसिनी, हर, हरि, हृषीकेश. हे (Pushya pada 2, Cancer (Karka)): हेमांग. 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. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  2. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranama with Bhaskararaya’s Commentary, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (2nd ed., 1925)
  3. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  4. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, Pune critical edition (BORI), Anushasana Parva, sanskritdocuments.org
  5. Vishnu Sahasranama: Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  6. Vishnu Sahasranama: Vishnu Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  7. Vishnu Sahasranama: The Vishnu Sahasranama with the Bhashya of Sri Sankaracharya, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (Theosophical Publishing House, 1927)
  8. 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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