rohiRI:- ro/hiRI

N. of the ninth Nakṣatra or lunar asterism and of the lunar day belonging to it (in this sense it may optionally have the accent on the last syllable; it is personified as a daughter of Dakṣa, and as the favourite wife of the Moon, called ‘the Red one’ from the colour of the star Aldebaran or principal star in the constellation which contains 5 stars, prob. α, β, γ, δ, ε, Tauri, and is figured by a wheeled vehicle or sometimes by a temple or fish; it is exceptionally pl., and in TS. & TBr. there are 2 Nakṣatras of this name; it may also be used as an adj. and mean ‘born under the Nakṣatra Rohiṇī’, Pāṇ. iv, 3, 34, Vārtt. 1)