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Nakshatra नक्षत्र

The zodiac divided the way Indian astrology actually reads it — twenty-seven asterisms of 13°20′ each, the Moon’s daily stations. Every nakṣatra below carries its exact degrees and rāśi, its Vimśottarī lord, its presiding devatā, the four pādas with their navāṁśa, and what the texts say of the native born under it — each statement linked to the verse it came from.

27 asterisms 108 pādas, of 3°20′ each 61 verses cited

How the 27 are grouped

The same twenty-seven, sorted three ways the text itself sorts them: by varṇa, by the kind of act each is fit for, and by the direction each holds on the kūrma-cakra — the map a mundane reading uses to say which part of the land an omen falls on.

Varṇa

Agraja the first-born — brāhmaṇa class 15.28
Pūrva Phalgunī, Pūrva Aṣāḍhā, Pūrva Bhādrapadā, Kṛttikā
Rājan kings — kṣatriya class 15.28
Puṣya, Uttara Phalgunī, Uttara Aṣāḍhā, Uttara Bhādrapadā
Kṛṣīvala farmers, the tilling folk 15.28
Revatī, Anurādhā, Maghā, Rohiṇī
Vaṇij merchant folk — vaiśya class 15.29
Punarvasu, Hasta, Aśvinī
Ugra-jāti the fierce class, “in their capacity of dominance” 15.29
Mūla, Ārdrā, Svātī, Śatabhiṣā
Sevā-jana the serving class 15.30
Mṛgaśira, Jyeṣṭhā, Citrā, Dhaniṣṭhā
Cāṇḍāla-jāti the outcaste class 15.30
Āśleṣā, Viśākhā, Śravaṇa, Bharaṇī

Karma-guṇa

Dhruva fixed 97.6
Uttara Phalgunī, Uttara Aṣāḍhā, Uttara Bhādrapadā, Rohiṇī Fit for: coronation, pacification rites, planting trees, founding cities, religious acts, sowing seed, and other lasting undertakings.
Tīkṣṇa sharp 97.7
Mūla, Ārdrā, Jyeṣṭhā, Āśleṣā Fit for: attacks, spells, vetāla rites, imprisonment, execution, division, and the severing of relationships.
Ugra severe 97.8
Pūrva Phalgunī, Pūrva Aṣāḍhā, Pūrva Bhādrapadā, Bharaṇī, Maghā Fit for: destruction and deceit, and success in imprisonment, poison, burning, weapon-attack and the like.
Laghu light 97.9
Hasta, Aśvinī, Puṣya Fit for: commerce, love-affairs, knowledge, ornaments, the arts, craftsmanship, medicine, and travel.
Mṛdu soft 97.10
Anurādhā, Citrā, Revatī, Mṛgaśira Fit for: love-rites, clothing and ornaments, auspicious ceremonies, and singing — beneficial for friendship’s sake.
Miśra mixed 97.11
Kṛttikā, Viśākhā Fit for: the mixed soft-and-sharp group; it produces mixed results.
Cara movable 97.11
Śravaṇa, Dhaniṣṭhā, Śatabhiṣā, Punarvasu, Svātī Fit for: movable undertakings — travel, vehicles, and whatever must go and come.

Verse 11 is where the witnesses part. The Sanskrit this site holds gives the movable group as the three Śravaṇa asterisms with ādityā (Punarvasu) and anila (Svātī) — Hasta is not among them, verse 9 having already placed it with the light ones. The 1884 Chidambaram Iyer translation printed on the muhūrta page reads Hasta there in place of Punarvasu, which is why that table shows Hasta twice and leaves Punarvasu without a group. Each page prints the source it names; neither is edited to agree with the other.

Kūrma-cakra direction

Centre 14.2
Kṛttikā, Rohiṇī, Mṛgaśira
East 14.5
Ārdrā, Punarvasu, Puṣya
South-east 14.10
Āśleṣā, Maghā, Pūrva Phalgunī
South 14.11
Uttara Phalgunī, Hasta, Citrā
South-west 14.19
Svātī, Viśākhā, Anurādhā
West 14.20
Jyeṣṭhā, Mūla, Pūrva Aṣāḍhā
North-west 14.22
Uttara Aṣāḍhā, Śravaṇa, Dhaniṣṭhā
North 14.24
Śatabhiṣā, Pūrva Bhādrapadā, Uttara Bhādrapadā
North-east 14.27
Revatī, Aśvinī, Bharaṇī

What this page rests on

Devatā, the character of the native, the persons and things of each asterism, the varṇa grouping, the karma-guṇa classes and the kūrma-cakra direction are all read from Bṛhat Saṁhitā — chapters 14, 15, 97 and 100 — as carried verse by verse in this site’s own library, and every one of them links to its verse. Vimśottarī lords are the standard sequence; gaṇa, yoni and nāḍī come from the milan tables with their own citations. Spans, rāśis, pādas and navāṁśas are arithmetic, not doctrine. The symbol, the star identification and the nāmākṣara syllables are traditional pañcāṅga material that Horā has not traced to a classical verse — they say so on their own rows. Nothing here is invented to fill a gap.