Nakshatra
Uttara Ashadha
उत्तराषाढा · Latter unconquered
Vimshottari lord: Surya. 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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Uttara Ashadha starts at 26 degrees 40 minutes of Sagittarius and ends at 10 degrees of Capricorn, with its first quarter in Sagittarius and the other three in Capricorn. In the Surya-Siddhanta, as Burgess reads it, an additional asterism, Abhijit, was reckoned right after it and left without a portion of the ecliptic. The Sun holds its Vimshottari dasha of 6 years.
The Brihat Jataka lists for the Moon in Uttara Ashadha obedience, many friends, gratitude, general popularity and a grounding in the rules of virtue. It is one of the more favorable lines of the chapter. The two Iyer editions give the same wording.
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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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