Nakshatra
Jyeshtha
ज्येष्ठा · Eldest
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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Jyeshtha finishes Scorpio, from 16 degrees 40 minutes to 30 degrees, with Antares as the bright star in Iyer's table. Its final navamsa, a ninth-part division, is the last of the sign and counts as one of the riksha sandhis, the junction points of the Brihat Jataka. Its Vimshottari dasha, 17 years, goes to Mercury.
Iyer's English for the Moon in Jyeshtha gives few friends, a cheerful disposition, virtue and an irascible temper. The 1885 and 1905 translations read alike. It is a short entry in which the favorable and unfavorable items are about equal.
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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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