नक्षत्र · Nakshatra 27 of 27 · 16°40′–30°00′ Mīna
रेवती Revatī(Revati)
Data
| Span | 16°40′–30°00′ Mīna |
|---|---|
| Lord | बुध Budha |
| Deity | Pūṣan, the nourisher — shepherd of travelers, roads and lost things |
| Symbol | A fish swimming in the sea; a drum that keeps time |
| Gana | deva |
| Temperament | Soft and complete (mṛdu) — the gentleness of the journey's last, luminous mile. |
Revati, 'the wealthy one', closes the zodiac with safe passage: nourishment for all beings, protection of travelers, and the sweetness of things brought to completion. These natives are guides and foster-parents by nature — of people, animals, projects — and their prosperity flows from the same source as their kindness. The zodiac's final degrees touch the gandanta threshold into Ashvini: an ending that is, by design, a beginning.
Cited fromTaittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5BPHS, Chs. 46–49BPHS, Ch. 6Nakshatra tradition
पद · The four padas
| Pada | Reading (by navamsa) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dhanu navāṁśa (Jupiter): the optimistic guide — wisdom that walks people home. |
| 2 | Makara navāṁśa (Saturn): the practical shepherd — care organized into dependable provision. |
| 3 | Kumbha navāṁśa (Saturn): the guardian of the flock — nourishment extended to whole communities. |
| 4 | Mīna navāṁśa (Jupiter): the ocean returns to itself — vargottama-deep compassion, completion and release at the gandanta edge. |
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.