Nakshatra
Hasta
हस्त · Hand
Vimshottari lord: Chandra. 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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About this entry
Hasta, a word for the hand, spans 10 degrees to 23 degrees 20 minutes of Virgo. Iyer's table gives Corvi as its constellation. In the Vimshottari dasha scheme, a planetary period timetable, the Moon is its lord for 10 years. Each of its quarters equals a navamsa, one ninth of a sign, and they run Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer.
The nakshatra chapter opens its Hasta entry with active habits and a fullness of resources. This page does not carry over the remainder of that entry.
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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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