Nakshatra
Vishakha
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Vimshottari lord: Guru. 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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Vishakha begins at 20 degrees of Libra and ends at 3 degrees 20 minutes of Scorpio, so its last quarter is in Scorpio. Jupiter holds its Vimshottari dasha, 16 years. Read by quarter, its navamsas, which divide a sign into nine, go Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer.
Chapter XVI gives this nakshatra a mixed entry, and the bright appearance and distinct speech are the mild parts. Skill in earning money also appears, and a footnote in the 1905 edition records a variant reading for one phrase of the line. The rest of the entry is unflattering and is not repeated here.
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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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