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The twelve rāśis

The rāśi-svarūpa chapter begins by naming the twelve signs as the limbs of Viṣṇu in the form of Time — head to feet, Meṣa to Mīna — and then gives each its lord, colour, direction, caste, element and gait. Phaladīpikā adds what each sign does when it rises as the lagna. The pages below quote both.

A rāśi is 30° of the ecliptic; SIA computes the sidereal longitude of every graha and the lagna from the Sūryasiddhānta's own algorithm and places them in these twelve houses of the sky.

The twelve rāśis

In the texts

BPHS C01.3Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra · राशिस्वरूपाध्यायः v3, folio 23

मेषो वृषश्च मिथुनः कर्किसिंहकुमारिकाः। तुलालिधनुषो नक्रकुम्भमीनास्ततः परम्।।३।।

RenderingMeṣa, Vṛṣa, Mithuna, Karka, Siṃha, Kanyā, Tulā, Vṛścika, Dhanu, Makara, Kumbha and Mīna — these are the twelve rāśis.

BPHS C01.4Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra · राशिस्वरूपाध्यायः v4, folio 23

शीर्षाननौ तथा बाहू हत्क्रोडकटिवस्तयः। गुह्योरुजानुयुग्मे वै युगले जङ्घके तथा।।४।।

RenderingCounted from the lagna, the twelve rāśis are in order the head, face, the two arms, heart, belly, waist, lower abdomen, private parts, thighs, the two knees, the shanks —

BPHS C01.5Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra · राशिस्वरूपाध्यायः v5, folio 23

चरणौ द्वौ तथा लग्नात् ज्ञेयाः शीर्षादयः क्रमात्। चरस्थिरद्विस्वभावाः क्रूराक्रूरौ नरस्त्रियौ।।५।।

Rendering— and the two feet of the Kāla-puruṣa. From Meṣa onward the rāśis are in turn movable, fixed and dual; cruel and gentle; male and female.

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