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Hasta हस्त
“the hand”
10° Kanyā — 23°20′ Kanyā
Vimśottarī lord: Chandra · 10 years of daśā Presiding devatā: Savitṛ
At a glance
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Span | 10° Kanyā — 23°20′ Kanyā | arithmetic — 13°20′ from the start of Meṣa |
| Rāśi | Kanyā Rāśi lord: Budha | arithmetic — read off the span above |
| Vimśottarī lord | Chandra चन्द्र 10 years of daśā | the standard Vimśottarī sequence |
| Presiding devatā | Savitṛ सवितृ Savitṛ, the Sun as impeller (dinakṛt) | Bṛhat Saṁhitā 97.4 |
| Gaṇa | Deva | Kālaprakāśikā ch. XIII, through the milan tables |
| Yoni | Mahiṣa buffalo | Kālaprakāśikā ch. XIII, through the milan tables |
| Nāḍī | Ādi आदि | from the milan tables — traditional, not traced to a classical verse |
| Varṇa | Vaṇij merchant folk — vaiśya class | Bṛhat Saṁhitā 15.29 |
| Karma-guṇa | Laghu light Fit for: commerce, love-affairs, knowledge, ornaments, the arts, craftsmanship, medicine, and travel. 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. | Bṛhat Saṁhitā 97.9 |
| Kūrma-cakra direction | South | Bṛhat Saṁhitā 14.11 |
| Symbol | an open hand | traditional — not traced to a verse |
| Stars | α, β, γ, δ and ε Corvi | traditional — not traced to a verse |
The character of the native
What the text says of a person born when the Moon stands in this asterism. This is the verse itself, not a paraphrase of it.
Enthusiastic, bold, a drinker, shameless, and a thief.
The persons and things it rules
Which people, animals, places, trades and goods fall under this asterism — the list a mundane or praśna reading works from.
Thieves, elephants, charioteers, great ministers, artisans, merchandise; chaff-grain; those learned in scripture; merchants; and the vigorous.
The four pādas
Each nakṣatra divides into four quarters of 3°20′. The quarter the Moon occupies fixes the navāṁśa sign — the divisional chart a reading leans on second only to the rāśi — and, by tradition, the syllable a child is named from. These are arithmetic: the 4 × 27 quarters run one navāṁśa each, in order, right around the zodiac.
| Pāda | Degrees | Navāṁśa | Navāṁśa lord | Nāmākṣara |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10° Kanyā — 13°20′ Kanyā | Meṣa | Maṅgala | Pū |
| 2 | 13°20′ Kanyā — 16°40′ Kanyā | Vṛṣabha | Śukra | Ṣa |
| 3 | 16°40′ Kanyā — 20° Kanyā | Mithuna | Budha | Ṇa |
| 4 | 20° Kanyā — 23°20′ Kanyā | Karka | Chandra | Ṭha |
arithmetic — pāda k of nakṣatra i takes navāṁśa (4i + k)
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.