नक्षत्र · Nakshatra 14 of 27 · 23°20′ Kanyā – 6°40′ Tulā
चित्रा Citrā(Chitra)
Data
| Span | 23°20′ Kanyā – 6°40′ Tulā |
|---|---|
| Lord | मङ्गल Maṅgala |
| Deity | Tvaṣṭṛ (Viśvakarmā), celestial architect and maker of forms |
| Symbol | A brilliant jewel; the bright star Spica |
| Gana | rakshasa |
| Temperament | Soft yet dazzling (mṛdu) — the drive to make things beautiful and make them well. |
Chitra, 'the brilliant', is the architect's star: design, structure, style and the charisma of well-made things. These natives combine an artist's eye with an engineer's hands and are rarely content with 'good enough'; their path is building works — and a self — of genuine substance beneath the shine.
Cited fromTaittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5BPHS, Chs. 46–49BPHS, Ch. 6Nakshatra tradition
पद · The four padas
| Pada | Reading (by navamsa) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Siṃha navāṁśa (Sun): the signature creator — design with bold, personal authorship. |
| 2 | Kanyā navāṁśa (Mercury): the master draftsman — perfection of detail and technique. |
| 3 | Tulā navāṁśa (Venus): the harmonizing designer — proportion, elegance and social grace. |
| 4 | Vṛścika navāṁśa (Mars): the intense visionary — creations that transform their maker. |
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.