This article is about the Hindu moon deity. For other uses, see Chandra (disambiguation). Chandra is: Chandra, a Hindu lunar diety The Chandra X-ray Observatory, a satellite launched by NASA in 1999 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American physicist Ranjit Chandra a Indian-Canadian immunologist accused of academic fraud [1] This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

In Hinduism, Chandra is a lunar deity. Chandra is sometimes identified with Soma. He is white and rides his chariot (the moon) across the sky every night, pulled by ten white horses. He is connected with dew, and as such, is one of the gods of fertility. He is the father of Budha, (planet Mercury) the mother being either Tara or Rohini. He is also married to Anuradha and Bharani, both daughters of Daksha. Hinduism (Sanskrit/Hindi: ; also known as Sanātana Dharma - , and Vaidika Dharma - ) is a worldwide religious tradition that is based on the Vedas, and is generally regarded as one of the oldest religions still practised in the world. ... In the study of mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with or symbolizing the moon: see moon (mythology). ... Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Sauma) was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and Iranian cultures. ... White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... Chariot was the name of a WW2 naval weapon, the British manned torpedo. ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... This article is about the state of water. ... In Hindu mythology, Budha (not to be confused with Buddha) is the name for the planet Mercury, a son of Chandra (the moon) with either Tara or Rohini. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure trace Potassium 31. ... In Hinduism the goddess Tara (meaning star) is a manifestation of the queen of time, Kali. ... In [HIndu]] mythology, Rohini Devi is a consort of Vasudeva. ... In Hinduism, Anuradha is a goddess of good luck. ... In Hinduism, Bharani is a goddess of bad luck, and a daughter of Daksha, and wife of Chandra. ... In Hinduism, Daksha is an ancient creator god, one of the Prajapatis, the Rishis and the Adityas, and a son of Aditi and Brahma. ...

Other meanings

Chandra is also the word in Sanskrit, Hindi and other Indian languages for moon. It is the middle name of the Hindu god Rama. Sanskrit ( संस्कृतम्) is an Indo-European classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ... Hindi (हिन्दी hindī) an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North, Central, and Western India, is one of the national languages of India. ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... Lord Rama (center) with wife Sita, brother Lakshmana and devotee Hanuman. ...

Chandra can refer to the Chandra X-ray Observatory or the astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. For other uses, see Chandra (disambiguation). ... Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India, (now Pakistan) – August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States) was an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. ...