Mūla — Mula
Mūla is the 19th of the twenty-seven nakṣatras, the 13°20′ arc from 240° to 253°20′ of the sidereal zodiac, within Dhanu (Sagittarius). A Moon born here opens the Vimśottarī cycle in the daśā of Ketu (7 years), with only the untraversed fraction of the arc remaining. In Kundli Milan its gaṇa is rākṣasa, its yoni śvāna (dog), its nāḍī ādi.
At a glance
- Number
- 19 / 27computed
- Span
- 240° – 253°20′ (13°20′)computed
- Rāśi
- Dhanu (Sagittarius)computed
- Pādas (navāṃśa rāśi)
- 1: Meṣa (Aries) · 2: Vṛṣabha (Taurus) · 3: Mithuna (Gemini) · 4: Karka (Cancer)BPHS shodashavarga.11
- Lord (Vimśottarī)
- KetuBPHS C29.80
- Vimśottarī years
- 7BPHS C29.80
- Gaṇa
- rākṣasaMILAN.GANA
- Yoni
- śvāna (dog)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.
राह्वारपङ्गुचन्द्राश्च विज्ञेया धातुखेचराः। मूलग्रहौ सूर्यशुक्रौ अपरा जीवसंज्ञकाः।।३६।।
RenderingRāhu, Maṅgala and Candra are lords of minerals (dhātu); Sūrya and Śukra of roots (mūla); Budha, Guru and Ketu of living things (jīva).
विंशतिरंशाः सिंहे कोणमपरे स्वभवनमर्कस्य। उच्चं भागत्रितयं वृषमिन्दोः शेषांशास्युस्त्रिकोणकाः।।४०।।
Gloss (English)The Sun is in the 1st house in Leo up to 20 degrees, the remaining 10 degrees are in its own sign.
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 Mula nakshatra?
Ketu (Ketu) in the Vimśottarī scheme — the first mahādaśā of a person born with the Moon in Mula is Ketu's, 7 years long in full.
What are the gana, yoni and nadi of Mula?
Gaṇa rākṣasa, yoni śvāna (dog), nāḍī ādi — the three nakṣatra-based kūṭas of Kundli Milan, carrying 6, 4 and 8 guṇas.
Which rashi is Mula in?
Dhanu (Sagittarius) — its four pādas fall in the navāṃśa signs Meṣa (Aries), Vṛṣabha (Taurus), Mithuna (Gemini), Karka (Cancer).
See these verses fire on your own chart.
Cast your kundli in SIA — every line of the reading carries the verse it rests on.
Related
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