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Indian zodiac: 26°40' Mesha - 10° Vrishabha; Western zodiac 20°26' Taurus - 3°46’ Gemini; 4 Rohini - रोहिणी "the red one", a name of Aldebaran. Also known as brāhmī: Aldebaran: Lord: Chandra ; Symbol: Cart or chariot, temple, banyan tree; Deity : Brahma or Prajapati, the Creator; Indian zodiac: 10° - 23°20' Vrishabha
Hindu astrology, also called Indian astrology, jyotisha (Sanskrit: ज्योतिष, romanized: jyotiṣa; from jyót 'light, heavenly body') and, more recently, Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology. It is one of the six auxiliary disciplines in Hinduism that is connected with the study of the Vedas.
Various approaches to measuring and dividing the sky are currently used by differing systems of astrology, although the tradition of the Zodiac's names and symbols remain mostly consistent. Western astrology measures from Equinox and Solstice points (points relating to equal, longest, and shortest days of the tropical year ), while Hindu ...
Symbols for the classical planets, zodiac signs, aspects, lots, and the lunar nodes appear in the medieval Byzantine codices in which many ancient horoscopes were preserved. [1] In the original papyri of these Greek horoscopes, there was a circle with the glyph representing shine for the Sun; and a crescent for the Moon. [2]
Practitioners of astrology in different parts of India follow different conventions regarding the exact form in which the kuṇḍali is constructed. Essentially there are three different ways in which these cells are represented in a kuṇḍali , the one followed by people of South India, the one followed by people of North India and the one ...
Notably, according to the Brihat Parasara Hora Sastra - an important Smriti Sastra or compilation of Indian astrology for prediction (i.e. fortune telling) - although all ten of the Dashavatara have corresponding astrological symbols, only four are considered as divine beings (i.e. Rama, Krishna, Narasimha and Varaha).
The nomenclature of 150 Nādis is peculiar to each of these three types of signs. There are 1,800 Nādis in 360 degrees. The numbers and names of Nādis are identical among all four Chara signs. Among all four Sthira signs, the numbers and names of Nādis are identical, but the numbering is different from those in Chara and Dvisvabhāva signs.
In Hindu astrology, Kṛttikā is the third of the 27 nakṣatra s. It is ruled by Sun. It is ruled by Sun. Under the traditional Hindu principle of naming individuals according to their Ascendant/Lagna nakṣatra , the following Sanskrit syllables correspond with this nakṣatra , and would belong at the beginning of the first name of an ...