Nakshatra
Magha
मघा · Bountiful
Vimshottari lord: Ketu. 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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Magha opens Leo, from 0 to 13 degrees 20 minutes of the sign. Regulus is its star in Iyer's table, and the Calendar Reform Committee report of 1955 draws on a statement in Varahamihira's version of the Surya-Siddhanta that places Regulus 6 degrees into the Magha division. Ketu is its dasha lord for 7 years in the Vimshottari order, as for Ashvini and Mula, and the four quarters open a fresh round of navamsas, the ninth parts of a sign, at Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer.
Chapter XVI of the Brihat Jataka, in both Iyer editions, lists for the Moon in Magha a large retinue of servants, worship of the Devas and Pitris, the ancestors, and engagement in important work. The 1905 edition adds wealth and comfort.
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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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