Chandra

In Hinduism, Chandra (Sanskrit: चन्द्र, IAST: Candra, lit. "shining") is a lunar god and a Graha. Chandra is also identified with the Vedic lunar deity Soma. The Soma name refers particularly to the juice of sap in the plants and thus makes the Moon the lord of plants and vegetation.

Chandra is described as young, beautiful, fair; two-armed and having in his hands a club and a lotus. He rides his chariot across the sky every night, pulled by ten white horses or an antelope. He is connected with dew, and as such, is one of the gods of fertility. He is also called Rajanipati and Kshupakara, and Indu. As Soma, he presides over Monday.

Chandra is the father of Budha, the mother being Tara. He is married to 27 Nakshatras, who are known to be daughters of Daksha.

In astrology

In Vedic astrology Chandra represents brain and mind, emotions, sensitivity, softness, imagination, queen and mother. Chandra rules over the sign Cancer, while he is exalted in Taurus and in his fall in Scorpio. The waxing Moon is considered to be benefic, and the waning Moon is considered to be malefic. The bright Moon is considered a benefic of the highest order, while the dark Moon is considered a malefic. Chandra is lord of three nakshatras or lunar mansions: Rohini, Hasta and Shravana. Chandra has the following associations: the color white, the metal silver and the gemstones pearl and moonstone. The food grain associated with him, is rice.

Chandra (disambiguation)

Chandra is a Hindu lunar deity.

Chandra may also refer to:

People

  • Ashok K. Chandra, a computer scientist
  • Bipan Chandra, an Indian historian
  • Lokesh Chandra, a Buddhist scholar
  • Ranjit Chandra, an Indian-Canadian immunologist accused of academic fraud
  • Vikram Chandra, an Indian author
  • Chandra Levy, an American murder victim whose disappearance made national headlines in 2001
  • Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister of India
  • Chandra West, a Canadian actress
  • Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astronomer
  • Chandra Wilson, an American actress
  • Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, a former Indian cricketer
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American astrophysicist who formulated what was later called the Chandrasekhar limit
  • Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, an Indian film director and script writer
  • Astronomy

  • Chandra X-ray Observatory, a satellite launched by NASA in 1999, and named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • 1958 Chandra, an asteroid named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • History

  • Chandra dynasty
  • Chinese Indonesian surname

    A large number of ethnic Chinese people have lived in Indonesia for many centuries. Over time, especially under social and political pressure during the New Order era, most Chinese Indonesians have adopted names that better match the local language.

    Colonial era to 1965

    During the Dutch colonial era until the Japanese invasion in 1942, the Dutch administration recorded Chinese names in birth certificates and other legal documents using an adopted spelling convention that was based primarily on Hokkien (Min), the language of the majority of Chinese immigrants in the Dutch East Indies. The administrators used the closest Dutch pronunciation and spelling of Hokkien words to record the names. A similar thing happens in Malaya, where the British administrators record the names using English spelling. Compare Lim (English) vs. Liem (Dutch), Wee or Ooi (English) vs. Oei or Oey (Dutch), Goh (English) vs. Go (Dutch), Chan (English) vs. Tjan (Dutch), Lee (English) vs. Lie (Dutch), Leung or Leong (English) vs Liong (Dutch).

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    Chandra

    by: Gong

    Did you get it? Did you get it?
    You're just another fish in the sea, yeah
    Did you get it? Did you get it?
    You gotta get it right
    And you get it jerked when you get it right
    When you get it, you won't forget it
    When you get it, you won't regret it
    When you get it you'll start to see
    Your course the same as me
    You call, you grow
    You know, you blow
    You fall, to the wall
    You laugh
    Now you know it's good to be back here in the world again
    Don't you know it's great to be in love with a girl again?
    Down here in the battlefield of time
    Don't get lost to reason or rhyme
    Really ought to get it together again
    Wouldn't you like to fly? Wouldn't you like to know why?
    You die, you try
    To fly when you're high
    You're low, you know
    You grow to flow
    To laugh in the path
    But you fall




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