Nakshatra
Shravana
श्रवण · Hearing
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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Shravana spans 10 degrees to 23 degrees 20 minutes of Capricorn. Altair is the bright star in Iyer's table. In the lists of 28, the extra asterism Abhijit comes just before it, and Dhanishta follows. Its Vimshottari dasha, 10 years, is the Moon's.
Chapter XVI credits the Moon in Shravana with prosperity, scholarship, a liberal-minded wife, wealth and wide-spread fame. No item in this entry is unfavorable.
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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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- Surya-Siddhanta, tr. Ebenezer Burgess (1860)
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