नक्षत्र · Nakshatra 13 of 27 · 10°00′–23°20′ Kanyā
हस्त Hasta
Data
| Span | 10°00′–23°20′ Kanyā |
|---|---|
| Lord | चन्द्र Candra |
| Deity | Savitṛ, the golden-handed sun of inspiration |
| Symbol | An open hand |
| Gana | deva |
| Temperament | Light and swift (laghu) — cleverness that lives in the hands. |
Hasta puts the whole sky in the palm of the hand: manual skill, wit, craft, healing touch and an almost magician-like resourcefulness. These natives fix, make, write, weave and organize; their charm is quick humor, and their fulfillment comes from mastery of a tangible craft where mind and hand work as one.
Cited fromTaittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5BPHS, Chs. 46–49BPHS, Ch. 6Nakshatra tradition
पद · The four padas
| Pada | Reading (by navamsa) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Meṣa navāṁśa (Mars): the fast hand — decisive skill, surgical precision, competitive craft. |
| 2 | Vṛṣabha navāṁśa (Venus): the artisan — patient hands that produce beauty and value. |
| 3 | Mithuna navāṁśa (Mercury): the wordsmith — writing, coding, juggling ideas with dexterous ease. |
| 4 | Karka navāṁśa (Moon): the healing hand — touch and craft in service of care. |
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.