Nakshatra
Bharani
भरणी · Bearer
Vimshottari lord: Shukra. 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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Bharani is the second nakshatra and sits wholly inside Aries, from 13 degrees 20 minutes to 26 degrees 40 minutes. Venus is its lord in the Vimshottari scheme, and the dasha, or planetary period, of 20 years is the longest of the nine. Its quarters, the padas, match the navamsas, or ninths of a sign, named Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio.
In the nakshatra chapter of the Brihat Jataka as Iyer renders it, the Moon in Bharani goes with success at work, truthfulness and ability, and with freedom from grief. Iyer closes the chapter with a note that the stated effects come in full only if the Moon is strong at the time, so each line there is conditional in the translator's telling.
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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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