Nakshatra
Ashlesha
आश्लेषा · Clinging one
Vimshottari lord: Budha. A dasha is one planetary period in that scheme, a pada is a quarter of a nakshatra, and a navamsa is a ninth of a sign.
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Ashlesha closes Cancer, from 16 degrees 40 minutes to 30 degrees. Its last navamsa, or ninth part of a sign, is also the last of the sign, and the Brihat Jataka lists that last navamsa of Cancer among three junction points it calls riksha sandhis. Mercury rules its dasha in the Vimshottari order, 17 years long. The other two junction nakshatras are Jyeshtha and Revati.
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- The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer (1885)
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- The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer, 2nd ed. (1905)
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