Chitra

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Chitra could refer to

• Chitra (चित्र) is a nakshatra. It is also a common hindu name for the female child in India derived from the sanskrit word for portrait or picture. Girls born under the star Chitra (Chitirai) are sometimes given this name.
• Chitra (चित्रा) is a major nadi (नाडी) mentioned in Shiva Samhita containing Brahmarandhra (ब्रह्मरन्ध्रं, "door to Brahm", see Sahasrara)
• Chitra Purnima is The full moon day of Chaitra month, that is, the Purnima during the ascendancy of the Chitra star is particularly sacred to the Chitra Guptas, the recording angels of the Hindu pantheon.
• The following people carry the name Chitra:
  • Chitra Bahadur K.C. is a Nepalese politician
  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English
  • Chitra Bharucha, a former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust
  • Chitra Ganesh, an artist based in Brooklyn, New York
  • Chitra Lekha Yadav is a Nepalese politician
  • Chitra Mudgal, a leading literary figure in modern Hindi literature
  • Chitra Singh, a female ghazal singer
  • Chitra K. Soman, an Indian sprinter
  • Chitra Subramaniam, an Indian journalist
  • Chitra Visweswaran a classical dancer
  • K. S. Chithra, a popular Indian playback singer

• Chitra is the title of a play written by the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore
• Amar Chitra Katha, one of India's largest selling comic book series
• Chitra Bharti Kathamala, a popular Indian Comic publication during the early 80s
• Chitra (genus), a turtle genus
  • Chitra indica, a narrow-headed soft-shelled turtle
  • Chitra chitra, a striped narrow-headed softshell turtle
• Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
• Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, India
• Chitra is a river in the Narail District of southwestern Bangladesh
• Chitrakar, "One who paints" (chitra means a painting)

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