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Tara

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Â© A Dictionary of First Names 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Tara ♀ Sanskrit: ‘star’ or ‘asterism’, a byname of Durga, especially in her meditative and magical guise; also the name of the wife of Brhaspati, preceptor of the gods, and mother of Budha (the Indian equivalent of the god Mercury); in Mahayana Buddhism, the name of the wife of Buddha, and of a Buddhist goddess; in Jain texts, the name of a female deity.

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