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The twenty-seven nakṣatras

The Moon crosses the 360° of the ecliptic in twenty-seven equal arcs of 13°20′ — the nakṣatras. Parāśara's daśā chapter keys the whole Vimśottarī system to them: the nakṣatra the Moon occupies at birth names the first mahādaśā lord, and the fraction of it still untraversed gives that daśā's balance.

The melāpaka (Kundli Milan) reads three more things off the birth nakṣatra — its gaṇa, yoni and nāḍī — and these pages state each one, with the doctrine record SIA scores it from.

The twenty-seven nakṣatras

In the texts

BPHS C29.78Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra · दशाध्यायः v12, folio 375

आनयनप्रकारं च शृणुष्व द्विजपुङ्गव। नामनक्षत्रपर्य्यन्तमार्क्षादि कृत्तिकादितः।।१२।।

RenderingHear now the method of finding it: count from Kṛttikā to the name-nakṣatra.

BPHS C29.79Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra · दशाध्यायः v13, folio 375

सैषा कृष्णेऽर्कहोरायां चन्द्रहोरागते सिते। दहनात्स्वर्क्षपर्य्यन्तं गणयेन्नवभिर्हरेत्।।१३।।

RenderingCount from Kṛttikā to the birth nakṣatra and divide by nine; the remainder gives the daśā.

BPHS C29.80Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra · दशाध्यायः v14, folio 375

सूर्येन्दुक्ष्माजतमसो वाक्पतिर्मन्दचन्द्रजा। केतुशुक्रौ क्रमादेते विज्ञेयाश्च दशाधिपाः।।१४।।

RenderingThe daśā lords in order: Sūrya, Candra, Maṅgala, Rāhu, Guru, Śani, Budha, Ketu and Śukra.

See these verses fire on your own chart.

Cast your kundli in SIA — every line of the reading carries the verse it rests on.

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