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Ārdrā आर्द्रा
“the moist one”
6°40′ Mithuna — 20° Mithuna
Vimśottarī lord: Rāhu · 18 years of daśā Presiding devatā: Rudra
At a glance
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Span | 6°40′ Mithuna — 20° Mithuna | arithmetic — 13°20′ from the start of Meṣa |
| Rāśi | Mithuna Rāśi lord: Budha | arithmetic — read off the span above |
| Vimśottarī lord | Rāhu राहु 18 years of daśā | the standard Vimśottarī sequence |
| Presiding devatā | Rudra रुद्र Rudra, the trident-bearer (śūlabhṛt) | Bṛhat Saṁhitā 97.4 |
| Gaṇa | Manuṣya | Kālaprakāśikā ch. XIII, through the milan tables |
| Yoni | Śvāna dog | Kālaprakāśikā ch. XIII, through the milan tables |
| Nāḍī | Ādi आदि | from the milan tables — traditional, not traced to a classical verse |
| Varṇa | Ugra-jāti the fierce class, “in their capacity of dominance” | Bṛhat Saṁhitā 15.29 |
| Karma-guṇa | Tīkṣṇa sharp Fit for: attacks, spells, vetāla rites, imprisonment, execution, division, and the severing of relationships. | Bṛhat Saṁhitā 97.7 |
| Kūrma-cakra direction | East | Bṛhat Saṁhitā 14.5 |
| Symbol | a teardrop, or a gem | traditional — not traced to a verse |
| Stars | Betelgeuse | 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.
Deceitful, arrogant, fierce, ungrateful, violent and sinful.
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.
Those devoted to killing, imprisonment, falsehood, adultery, theft, deceit and treachery; chaff-grain, sharp mantras, black magic and vetāla rites.
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 | 6°40′ Mithuna — 10° Mithuna | Dhanu | Guru | Ku |
| 2 | 10° Mithuna — 13°20′ Mithuna | Makara | Śani | Gha |
| 3 | 13°20′ Mithuna — 16°40′ Mithuna | Kumbha | Śani | Ṅa |
| 4 | 16°40′ Mithuna — 20° Mithuna | Mīna | Guru | Chha |
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.