Nakshatra
Mrigashira
मृगशिरा · Deer's head
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.
This page reports what named books say and what a calculator computes. It is not a statement about you or about anything to come, and it cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this entry
Mrigashira straddles two signs, since it begins at 23 degrees 20 minutes of Taurus and ends at 6 degrees 40 minutes of Gemini. Iyer's note says the third quarter of this nakshatra is where Gemini begins. Mars holds its Vimshottari dasha of 7 years, and its quarters correspond to the navamsas, a sign's ninth parts, of Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio.
The Brihat Jataka entry for the Moon in this nakshatra opens with a statement about unsteady principles, then lists ability, good speech, active habits and wealth, and adds items that this page leaves out.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older text follow the scanned or typed text named here. Statements about the calculator describe its own rules, and modern practice is labeled as modern.
- The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer (1885)
Retrieved 2026-11-09
- The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer, 2nd ed. (1905)
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.