What is "navaratna"

Navaratna is a Sanskrit compound word meaning "nine gems". It can refer to the following:

• Navaratna - a jewelry style
• Navaratnas - advisors to Vikramaditya and Akbar's courts
• Navaratna (architecture) - an architecture style
• Navratna - in this spelling indicates a government-owned company of India which has certain financial autonomy

It can also refer to:

• the Nav Rattan award - part of the Hind Rattan awards for Indian diaspora

Navaratna is a Sanskrit compound word meaning "nine gems". Jewellery created in this style has important cultural significance in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, among other religions.

The navaratna style of temple architecture (, meaning "nine gems") incorporates two main levels, each with four spired corner pavilions, and a central pavilion above, for a total of nine spires. The style arose in Bengal during the eighteenth century as an elaboration of the pancharatna style that had five pavilions (four at the corners and one above).