Nakshatra
Chitra
चित्रा · Bright one
Vimshottari lord: Mangala. 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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Chitra runs from 23 degrees 20 minutes of Virgo to 6 degrees 40 minutes of Libra, so the border between the two signs falls in the middle of it, at 180 degrees. The Calendar Reform Committee report of 1955 sets the bright star Spica, which Iyer's table names for Chitra, at that 180 degree point in the Lahiri scheme. Its Vimshottari dasha, 7 years, belongs to Mars.
Iyer's translation lists, for the Moon in Chitra, cloth and flowers of many colors and beautiful eyes and limbs. That is the whole of it. The line is brief and entirely about appearance, one of several entries where the book says little.
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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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- History of the Calendar, Saha and Lahiri (Calendar Reform Committee, 1955; 1992 reprint)
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