नक्षत्र · Nakshatra 17 of 27 · 3°20′–16°40′ Vṛścika
अनुराधा Anurādhā(Anuradha)
Data
| Span | 3°20′–16°40′ Vṛścika |
|---|---|
| Lord | शनि Śani |
| Deity | Mitra, god of friendship and kept promises |
| Symbol | A lotus blooming in deep water; a ceremonial staff |
| Gana | deva |
| Temperament | Soft and devoted (mṛdu) — the lotus that flowers precisely because the water is deep. |
Anuradha, 'the follower of Radha / the one after success', is friendship as a spiritual discipline: loyalty, devotion and the gift of cooperating across differences and distances. These natives succeed in foreign lands and hard circumstances because connection is their method — the lotus needs the mud, and they know it.
Cited fromTaittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5BPHS, Chs. 46–49BPHS, Ch. 6Nakshatra tradition
पद · The four padas
| Pada | Reading (by navamsa) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Siṃha navāṁśa (Sun): the warm-hearted leader of friends — devotion with natural authority. |
| 2 | Kanyā navāṁśa (Mercury): the reliable organizer — loyalty expressed through practical service. |
| 3 | Tulā navāṁśa (Venus): the diplomat — bridge-building, fairness, harmony among many. |
| 4 | Vṛścika navāṁśa (Mars): the depth-bonded friend — few ties, but unbreakable ones. |
Sources
- Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5Taittiriya Brahmana 1.5 (with parallels in Taittiriya Samhita 4.4.10 and Atharva Veda 19.7): the Vedic nakshatra lists with their presiding deities. Vedic corpus, public domain.
- BPHS, Chs. 46–49Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (attrib. Maharshi Parashara), Chs. 46–49 (97-chapter recension, R. Santhanam ed.): the Vimshottari dasha as the foremost dasha system — sequence and years (Ketu 7, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19, Mercury 17; total 120), effects of each graha's dasha, and antardasha doctrine. Sanskrit classic, public domain.
- BPHS, Ch. 6Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (attrib. Maharshi Parashara), Ch. 6 'The Sixteen Divisions of a Rashi' (97-chapter recension, R. Santhanam ed.): the navamsa (D9) scheme underlying the pada framework — each pada of 3°20′ is one navamsa. Sanskrit classic, public domain.
- Nakshatra traditionCommon Jyotish nakshatra doctrine — symbols, the deva/manushya/rakshasa gana classification, and temperament — standardized across muhurta and jataka manuals and consistent from the medieval synthesis treatises (e.g., Jataka Parijata) onward. Editorial synthesis in our own words; no copyrighted translation reproduced.