Nakshatra
Pushya
पुष्य · Nourisher
Vimshottari lord: Shani. 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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Pushya occupies the stretch of Cancer between 3 degrees 20 minutes and 16 degrees 40 minutes, so it sits wholly in one sign. Saturn is its lord in the Vimshottari dasha order, and the period is 19 years, the second longest. Each of its four padas equals one navamsa, the ninth part of a sign, and the four are named Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio.
Varahamihira's nakshatra chapter, in Iyer's English, credits the Moon in Pushya with control over desires, general popularity, wealth, a liking for acts of charity and a command of the Shastras. As with other entries, Iyer's note adds that the Moon must be strong for the effects to come in full.
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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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