Jyeṣṭhā — Jyeshtha
Jyeṣṭhā is the 18th of the twenty-seven nakṣatras, the 13°20′ arc from 226°40′ to 240° of the sidereal zodiac, within Vṛścika (Scorpio). A Moon born here opens the Vimśottarī cycle in the daśā of Mercury (17 years), with only the untraversed fraction of the arc remaining. In Kundli Milan its gaṇa is rākṣasa, its yoni mṛga (deer), its nāḍī ādi.
At a glance
- Number
- 18 / 27computed
- Span
- 226°40′ – 240° (13°20′)computed
- Rāśi
- Vṛścika (Scorpio)computed
- Pādas (navāṃśa rāśi)
- 1: Dhanu (Sagittarius) · 2: Makara (Capricorn) · 3: Kumbha (Aquarius) · 4: Mīna (Pisces)BPHS shodashavarga.11
- Lord (Vimśottarī)
- Budha (Mercury)BPHS C29.80
- Vimśottarī years
- 17BPHS C29.80
- Gaṇa
- rākṣasaMILAN.GANA
- Yoni
- mṛga (deer)MILAN.YONI
- Nāḍī
- ādiMILAN.NADI
Where the texts name it
The verses below are places where SIA's store prints this nakṣatra by name; the daśā and melāpaka rules above are the doctrine SIA computes with.
तथाक्षवेदभागानामधिपाश्चलभे क्रियात्। स्थिरे सिंहाद्द्विस्वभावे चापाद्ब्रह्मेशकेशवाः। ईशाच्युतसुरज्येष्ठविष्णुकेशाश्चराधिषु।।३०।।
Edition gloss (Hindi)चर राशि में मेष से, स्थिर राशि में सिंह से और द्विस्वभाव राशि में धन राशि से गणना करने से अक्षवेदांश के स्वामी होते हैं और चर, स्थिर, द्विस्वभाव के क्रम से ब्रह्मा, शंकर, विष्णु; शंकर, विष्णु, ब्रह्मा; विष्णु, ब्रह्मा, शंकर ये स्वामी होते हैं।।३०।। उदाहरण— लग्न ९।१५।२२।३७ है। ४० कला का एक भाग होता है, अतः २४वाँ मीन राशि अर्थात् गुरु का अक्षवेदांश हुआ और विष्णु स्वामी हुए।
Melāpaka doctrine
Doctrine recordGaṇa (6 guṇas) — each nakṣatra belongs to the deva, manuṣya or rākṣasa gaṇa (temperament class). The same gaṇa earns 6; deva with manuṣya 5–6; deva with rākṣasa 1; manuṣya with rākṣasa 0. A mismatch here (gaṇa-doṣa) signals a clash of basic temperament, softened when the Moon-sign lords are friends.
Doctrine recordYoni (4 guṇas) — each nakṣatra carries an animal nature (aśva, gaja, meṣa, sarpa, śvāna, mārjāra, mūṣaka, go, mahiṣa, vyāghra, mṛga, vānara, nakula, siṃha). The same yoni earns 4; friendly yonis 3; neutral 2; unfriendly 1; the sworn-enemy pairs (horse–buffalo, elephant–lion, sheep–monkey, serpent–mongoose, dog–hare/deer, cat–rat, cow–tiger) earn 0. It measures instinctive, physical compatibility.
Doctrine recordNāḍī (8 guṇas) — the heaviest kūṭa. The 27 nakṣatras cycle through the three nāḍīs (ādi, madhya, antya), the constitutional current. DIFFERENT nāḍīs earn the full 8; the SAME nāḍī earns 0 and is nāḍī-doṣa, the gravest melāpaka objection (held to bear on progeny and health). The doṣa is classically waived when the two Moons share one rāśi with different nakṣatras, or one nakṣatra with different pādas.
Questions
Who is the lord of Jyeshtha nakshatra?
Mercury (Budha) in the Vimśottarī scheme — the first mahādaśā of a person born with the Moon in Jyeshtha is Mercury's, 17 years long in full.
What are the gana, yoni and nadi of Jyeshtha?
Gaṇa rākṣasa, yoni mṛga (deer), nāḍī ādi — the three nakṣatra-based kūṭas of Kundli Milan, carrying 6, 4 and 8 guṇas.
Which rashi is Jyeshtha in?
Vṛścika (Scorpio) — its four pādas fall in the navāṃśa signs Dhanu (Sagittarius), Makara (Capricorn), Kumbha (Aquarius), Mīna (Pisces).
See these verses fire on your own chart.
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